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In this chapter, we focus on the issue of thermal transport properties. e concepts of thermal conductivity and conductance are introduced; the conductance is shown to be quantized at the nanoscale. Technological applications of the thermal properties of nanoscaled materials may result from materials with either a high or low thermal conductance. Research into each of these cases is outlined in this section. We conclude this chapter with a discussion in Section 8.3 on the challenges and perspectives for atomistic simulations in this topic.
