“…In a similar way, cooling of nanostructures can be sensed after pulsed heating to evaluate thermal transport in bulk-like conditions [21,22,23]. While optical methods are readily available in laboratories, we describe the same concept of pulsed laser heating, but probing the temperature by X-ray scattering, which adds better access to nanoscale structure [24,25,26,27]. X-ray scattering can address temperature (change) by lattice parameter (expansion), at the same time giving access to phonon modes [11,28,29] or sub-surface resolution.…”