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ArticlePhysical review applied2026

Fundamental limit of phonon Tesla valve for heat rectification from first principles.

Huan Wu, Yongjie Hu

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Article in Physical review applied, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Huan WuSchool of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7531-1116
Yongjie HuSchool of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7225-1130

Funding

Nanoscale Temperature Mapping and Thermal Regulation of Intracellular DynamicsR35GM147391 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Yongjie Hu · 2022 to 2026
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM147391
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Directional control of heat remains a central challenge for energy conversion, waste-heat utilization, and thermal management, as existing thermal rectifiers exhibit low efficiency or operate only at cryogenic temperatures. Here we demonstrate giant phonon rectification in solid-state "phonon Tesla valves", inspired by Nikola Tesla's fluidic one-way valve but governed by fundamentally different transport physics. Using

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