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ReviewNature materials2021

Phonon-engineered extreme thermal conductivity materials.

Xin Qian, Jiawei Zhou, Gang Chen

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Review in Nature materials, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 111 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

111 citing papers in PubMed.

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  18. Enthalpy-Driven Topological Programming of (TPMS)-Like Carbon Networks.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Xin Qian *Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3198-2014
Jiawei Zhou *Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9872-5688
Gang ChenDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. gchen2@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3968-8530

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat exchangers, energy converters and thermal insulation. Recent advances in simulation tools (first principles, the atomistic Green's function and molecular dynamics) and experimental techniques (pump-probe techniques and microfabricated platforms) have led to new insights on phonon transport and scattering in materials and the discovery of new thermal materials, and are enabling the engineering of phonons towards desired thermal properties. We review recent discoveries of both inorganic and organic materials with ultrahigh and low thermal conductivity, highlighting heat-conduction physics, strategies used to change thermal conductivity, and future directions to achieve extreme thermal conductivities in solid-state materials.

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