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Thermal Transport: Molecular Bridge Enables Anomalous Enhancement in Thermal Transport across Hard‐Soft Material Interfaces (Adv. Mater. 35/2014)
Author(s) -
Sun Fangyuan,
Zhang Teng,
Jobbins Matthew M.,
Guo Zhi,
Zhang Xueqiang,
Zheng Zhongli,
Tang Dawei,
Ptasinska Sylwia,
Luo Tengfei
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201470241
Subject(s) - materials science , thermal , soft materials , bridge (graph theory) , work (physics) , nanotechnology , molecular dynamics , composite material , chemical physics , mechanical engineering , thermodynamics , computational chemistry , chemistry , medicine , physics , engineering
On page 6093, T. Luo and co‐workers demonstrate that molecular bridges consisting of small molecules chemically absorbed on solid surfaces can bring about a seven‐fold increase in the thermal transport across hard–soft material interfaces, despite a significant decrease in the interfacial energy. This work provides an unconventional strategy to improve thermal transport across material interfaces.