Research Projects

The understanding of thermal transport physics and the subsequent discovery of novel low thermal conductivity crystalline materials is of great importance for applications such as thermoelectric energy conversion, thermal barrier coatings, data storage, and nuclear reactors. In this work, (a) a first-principles based BTE solver will be developed to study the thermal transport in strongly anharmonic solids by considering the particle-like phonon and wave-like coherent transport channels and (b) the developed solver will be used to study thermal transport in strongly anharmonic solids and discover novel ternary metal chalcogenides for low thermal conductivity applications.