Pushing thermal conductivity to its lower limit in crystals with simple structures

Abstract Materials with low thermal conductivity usually have complex crystal structures. Herein we experimentally find that a simple crystal structure material AgTlI2 (I4/mcm) owns an extremely low thermal conductivity of 0.25 W/mK at room temperature. To understand this anomaly, we perform in-dept...

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Main Authors: Zezhu Zeng, Xingchen Shen, Ruihuan Cheng, Olivier Perez, Niuchang Ouyang, Zheyong Fan, Pierric Lemoine, Bernard Raveau, Emmanuel Guilmeau, Yue Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46799-3