Jonathan A. Malen

TL;DR: A breakdown in diffusive phonon transport generated by high-frequency surface temperature modulation is used to identify the mean free path-dependent contributions of phonons to thermal conductivity in crystalline and amorphous silicon.

TL;DR: In this paper, liquid metal microdroplets are incorporated into a soft elastomer to achieve an unprecedented combination of metal-like thermal conductivity, an elastic compliance similar to soft biological tissue, and a unique thermal-mechanical coupling that exploits the deformability of the LM inclusions to create thermally conductive pathways in situ.

TL;DR: An electrically insulating composite that exhibits an unprecedented combination of metal-like thermal conductivity, an elastic compliance similar to soft biological tissue, and the capability to undergo extreme deformations is engineering by engineering an elastomer composite embedded with elongated inclusions of liquid metal that function as thermally conductive pathways.

TL;DR: Cyanide end groups were found to radically change transport relative to BDT such that transport is dominated by the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital in 1,4-benzenedicyanide, while substituents on BDT generated small and predictable changes in transmission.

TL;DR: The decreasing trend in S for alkanedithiols suggests that transmission is largely affected by gold-sulfur metal induced gap states residing between the HOMO and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital, and suggests that the molecular backbone determines the length dependence of S, while the binding group determines the zero length or contact S.