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

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Figure 1: Computer simulation of the heat flux in a nanostructured material containing cylindrical holes (shown in white) as heat propagates in the direction parallel to the plane of the page, from bottom to top.

DAVIDE DONADIO & IVAN DUCHEMIN

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  1. Giulia Galli is in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.,

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  2. Davide Donadio is at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany. gagalli@ucdavis.edu; donadio@mpip-mainz.mpg.de,

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Galli, G., Donadio, D. Silicon stops heat in its tracks. Nature Nanotech 5, 701–702 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.199

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