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SummaryA wide variety of materials with low thermal conductivity find daily use, such as jackets for cold weather and plastic handles of hot metal cooking pots. Even the best thermal insulators still have a finite thermal conductivity…

Blocking heat in two waysLow thermal conductivity is important for barrier coatings, thermoelectrics, and other applications. Gibson et al. combined two complementary methods that manipulate internal interface properties to dramatically…

A thermal signatureAlthough the material α-ruthenium chloride exhibits some of the physics associated with Kitaev spin liquids, it is not a perfect representation of this model. Yokoi et al. probed the limits of the Kitaev description by…