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Topics Phonons, Heat transfer, Thermal conductivity, Materials properties, Atomic force microscopy, 2D materials, Thermal effects Soon after the discovery of monolayer graphene, it was found that 2D materials have unique thermal properties, which opened opportunities for heat control at the nanoscale.1–7 Due to their ultrasmall thickness, the thermal properties of 2D materials are dominated by surface scattering of acoustic phonons, which is highly sensitive to strain,8 grain size,9 and...