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Breaking through barriers

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Understanding heat flow across interfaces remains an open question for thermal science. Nanocrystal arrays may play a key role in unlocking this mystery.

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Figure 1: Thermal transport in NCAs.

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  1. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695, North Carolina, USA

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