From DFT to machine learning: recent approaches to materials science–a review

GR Schleder, ACM Padilha, CM Acosta… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent advances in experimental and computational methods are increasing the quantity
and complexity of generated data. This massive amount of raw data needs to be stored and …

Structure–thermopower relationships in molecular thermoelectrics

S Park, H Kang, HJ Yoon - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Studies of molecular thermoelectrics help to reveal how atomic-detailed structural
modification in molecules can affect the thermopower of molecular-scale devices. This …

Benchmarking break-junction techniques: electric and thermoelectric characterization of naphthalenophanes

J Hurtado-Gallego, S van der Poel, M Blaschke… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Break-junction techniques provide the possibility to study electric and thermoelectric
properties of single-molecule junctions in great detail. These techniques rely on the same …

High thermopower of mechanically stretched single-molecule junctions

M Tsutsui, T Morikawa, Y He, A Arima, M Taniguchi - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Metal-molecule-metal junction is a promising candidate for thermoelectric applications that
utilizes quantum confinement effects in the chemically defined zero-dimensional atomic …

Thermoelectric efficiency of nanoscale devices in the linear regime

G Bevilacqua, G Grosso, G Menichetti… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We study quantum transport through two-terminal nanoscale devices in contact with two
particle reservoirs at different temperatures and chemical potentials. We discuss the general …

Side-group-mediated thermoelectric properties of anthracene single-molecule junction with anchoring groups

S Ramezani Akbarabadi, H Rahimpour Soleimani… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Charge transfer characteristics of single-molecule junctions at the nanoscale, and
consequently, their thermoelectric properties can be dramatically tuned by chemical or …

Geometry-based circulation of local thermal current in quantum harmonic and Bose-Hubbard systems

P Dugar, CC Chien - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
A geometry-based mechanism for generating steady-state internal circulation of local
thermal currents is demonstrated by harmonically coupled quantum oscillators formulated by …

Roles of vacuum tunnelling and contact mechanics in single-molecule thermopower

M Tsutsui, K Yokota, T Morikawa, M Taniguchi - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Molecular junction is a chemically-defined nanostructure whose discrete electronic states
are expected to render enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit suitable for energy …

Anchoring groups determine conductance, thermopower and thermoelectric figure of merit of an organic molecular junction

S Ramezani Akbarabadi, M Madadi Asl - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Transport properties of molecular junctions are prone to chemical or conformational
modifications. Perturbation of the molecule-electrode coupling with anchoring groups or …

Adsorption, Stretching, and Breaking Processes in Single‐Molecule Conductance of para‐Benzenedimethanethiol in Gold Nanogaps: A DFT‐NEGF Theoretical …

SY Guan, ZY Cai, J Liu, R Pang, DY Wu… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical and mechanical properties of gold‐para‐benzenedimethanethiol (BDMT)‐gold
molecular junctions with different binding configurations have been investigated using …