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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Molecular Electronics as a Playground for Nanosc
 ale Thermal Transport
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Juan Carlos Cuevas\, Theoretical Condensed Matter Phy
 sics Department\, Autonomous University of Madrid\nAbstract: With the ad
 vent of novel fabrication techniques in the 1980s and 1990s\, it became po
 ssible to explore many transport phenomena at the nanoscale where classica
 l laws no longer apply. Since then\, a lot of progress has been done in th
 e understanding of the electronic transport\, mechanical\, and optical pro
 perties of nanoscale devices. However\, thermal transport in these systems
  has remained relatively unexplored because of the experimental difficulti
 es to measure the flow of heat and energy at this small scale. In this tal
 k\, I will review our theoretical and experimental efforts in recent years
  to establish the fundamental laws that govern nanoscale thermal transport
  by using atomic and molecular junctions as a playground. I will briefly d
 iscuss fundamental phenomena such as Joule heating and Peltier cooling in 
 molecular junctions [1\,2]\, quantized thermal transport in atomic-size co
 ntacts [3]\, heat conduction through water nanomenisci [4]\, and phonon in
 terference in single-molecule junctions [5].\n\n[1] W. Lee\, K. Kim\, W. J
 eong\, L.A. Zotti\, F. Pauly\, J.C. Cuevas\, P. Reddy\, Nature 498\, 209 (
 2013).\n[2] L. Cui\, R. Miao\, K. Wang\, D. Thompson\, L.A. Zotti\, J.C. C
 uevas\, E. Meyhofer\, P. Reddy\, Nature Nanotechnology 13\, 122 (2018).\n[
 3] L. Cui\, W. Jeong\, S. Hur\, M. Matt\, J.C Klöckner\, F. Pauly\, J.C. 
 Cuevas\, E. Meyhofer\, P. Reddy\, Science 355\, 1192 (2017).\n[4] R. Lópe
 z-Nebreda\, O. Mateos-López\, P.M. Martínez\, J.J. García-Esteban\, A. 
 Babe\, N. Roca-Giménez\, P. Segovia\, E.G. Michel\, E.J.H. Lee\, J.G. Vil
 hena\, J.C. Cuevas\, N. Agraït\, Nature Communications 16\, 7342 (2025).\
 n[5] S.C Yelishala\, Y. Zhu\, P.M. Martinez\, H. Chen\, M. Habibi\, G. Pra
 mpolini\, J.C. Cuevas\, W. Zhang\, J.G. Vilhena\, L. Cui\, Nature Material
 s 24\, 1258 (2025).\n\nBiography: Juan Carlos Cuevas is an Associate Prof
 essor in the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the Uni
 versidad Autónoma de Madrid\, Spain. He received his Physics degree in 19
 93 and his Ph.D. in Physics in 1999 from the same university\, under the s
 upervision of Álvaro Martín Rodero and Alfredo Levy Yeyati.\nFollowing h
 is doctoral studies\, he joined the group of Prof. Gerd Schön at the Univ
 ersität Karlsruhe (Germany) as a Marie Curie Fellow and later led a Junio
 r Research Group on the theoretical aspects of molecular electronics withi
 n the Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik. Since 2007\, he has he
 ld a permanent position at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid\, where his
  research focuses on electronic transport\, superconductivity\, and quantu
 m effects in nanoscale systems and molecular junctions.\nProf. Cuevas has 
 been a visiting professor and Mercator Fellow multiple times at the Univer
 sity of Konstanz (Germany) and has also been a research fellow at the Inst
 itute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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