International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

Special Issue on ‘Nanoscale Energy Transport: from Understanding to Tailoring toward Applications in Manufacturing’

Guest Editor:

Professor Xinwei Wang

Iowa State University, United States of America

Homepage：https://web.me.iastate.edu/wang

Introduction

Energy transport at the nanoscale plays a critical role in manufacturing which is subjected to intense energy beam loading at various spatial and temporal scales. Examples include the extremely fast heating by ultrafast laser pulses and subsequent phase change and phase explosion, conduction/radiation-controlled solidification and new phase formation, nanoscale point-contact heat conduction among micro/nano-particles in laser-assisted additive manufacturing, energy transport faced in optical nearfield-driven nanomanufacturing, and shockwave-confined ablation behaviour in laser-matter interactions. Characterization, understanding, and tailoring of these energy transports in ultrasmall space domains is critical to extreme manufacturing of desired material structures and functionalities. Very broad interdisciplinary research efforts have been, and are still being undertaken to understand and control the energy transport at the nanoscale via theoretical development, computer modelling, and experiments.

The aim of this special issue is to provide a forum for researchers to disseminate and review the latest novel knowledge development, technical advances, challenges, and foresight visions in characterization and control of energy transport at the nanoscale. Such works are critical to next-generation extreme manufacturing to realize higher level structure control, energy efficiency improvement, and ultra material properties and devices functions.

Possible topics, within this scope, include but are not limited to:

Energy transport involved in ultrafast laser-material interactions
Energy transport (phonons, electrons) inspired by new low-dimension materials (2D materials, quantum dots, nanotubes, nanowires, and interfaces)
Conduction and radiation as a result of nearfield optical heating
Effects of nanoscale structures on phonon and electron transport
Methods and experiment development toward tailoring/control of energy transport at the nanoscale
Theoretical development
Computer modelling down to atomistic scale
Novel experiment development
Nanoscale energy transport-induced phenomena: thermal stress, stress waves, shock waves, and structural defects
Anisotropic nanoscale heat conduction: understanding and tailoring
Nearfield radiation inspired by nanodomains and nanomaterials
Energy carrier-wide non-equilibrium nanoscale energy transport
Transient nanoscale energy transport
Structure design and construction toward extreme nanoscale energy transport (super insulation, ultrahigh heat conduction, ultrahigh heat flux)