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  • Patterning thin films of silicon to produce nanomesh structures can reduce their thermal conductivity without compromising their good electrical properties.

    • Giulia Galli
    • Davide Donadio
    News & Views
    Nature Nanotechnology
    Volume: 5, P: 701-702

  • Graphene is known to display unique functional properties due to its two-dimensional structure. Here, the authors measure the thermal conductivity of suspended graphene as a function of sample length, finding that thermal conductivity is higher in longer samples as a result of two-dimensional phonons.

    • Xiangfan Xu
    • Luiz F. C. Pereira
    • Barbaros Özyilmaz
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-6

  • Nucleation and growth of ice in small droplets are strongly size dependent, but direct experimental evidence is rare. Li et al.demonstrate computationally that the nucleation is substantially suppressed in nanosized droplets, which is caused by increased pressure at the curved liquid–vapour interface.

    • Tianshu Li
    • Davide Donadio
    • Giulia Galli
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 4, P: 1-6

  • Molecular simulations reveal how diamond and graphite crystallize from molten carbon. Following Ostwald’s step rule, the liquid’s low density drives metastable graphite formation even within the diamond thermodynamic stability zone, explaining discrepancies in high-pressure carbon phase experiments.

    • Davide Donadio
    • Margaret L. Berrens
    • Tianshu Li
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-10

  • Surfaces have an important role in solid–liquid phase transformations, but whereas melting is normally observed at surfaces, freezing usually originates in the bulk. Computational studies now predict surface-induced nucleation in supercooled liquid silicon and germanium, and the proposed nucleation mechanism could prove to be relevant for other tetrahedrally coordinated systems.

    • Tianshu Li
    • Davide Donadio
    • Giulia Galli
    Research
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 8, P: 726-730

  • Thermal transistors can enable game changing applications in energy harvesting and heat routing. Here, the authors demonstrate reversible thermal modulation of nearly 10 times by ion intercalation in MoS2 nanofilms. A new thermal microscopy technique allows operando imaging of Li ion segregation.

    • Aditya Sood
    • Feng Xiong
    • Kenneth E. Goodson
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-9

  • Heat transport is a key process in designing functional materials, yet its calculations remain challenging due to large variance in material structures. Isaeva et al. introduce a unified approach counting the quantum effects, which is capable of modeling heat transport ranging from crystals to glasses.

    • Leyla Isaeva
    • Giuseppe Barbalinardo
    • Stefano Baroni
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-6

  • Liquid ultrafast electron scattering measures structural responses in liquid water with femtosecond temporal and atomic spatial resolution to reveal a transient hydrogen bond contraction then thermalization preceding relaxation of the OH stretch.

    • Jie Yang
    • Riccardo Dettori
    • Xijie Wang
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 596, P: 531-535

  • The PLUMED consortium unifies developers and contributors to PLUMED, an open-source library for enhanced-sampling, free-energy calculations and the analysis of molecular dynamics simulations. Here, we outline our efforts to promote transparency and reproducibility by disseminating protocols for enhanced-sampling molecular simulations.

    • Massimiliano Bonomi
    • Giovanni Bussi
    • Andrew White
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 16, P: 670-673