Phonon Engineering of Micro‐and Nanophononic Crystals and Acoustic Metamaterials: A Review

J Ma - Small Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phononic crystals (PnCs) and acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) are artificially architected
materials endowed with the capabilities of wave manipulation. This review specifically …

Grain boundary engineering for achieving high thermoelectric performance in n‐type skutterudites

X Meng, Z Liu, B Cui, D Qin, H Geng… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Grain or phase boundaries play a critical role in the carrier and phonon transport in bulk
thermoelectric materials. Previous investigations about controlling boundaries primarily …

Application of atomic stress to compute heat flux via molecular dynamics for systems with many-body interactions

D Surblys, H Matsubara, G Kikugawa, T Ohara - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
Although the computation of heat flux and thermal conductivity either via Fourier's law or the
Green-Kubo relation has become a common task in molecular dynamics simulation …

Ultrahigh Electron Thermal Conductivity in T‐Graphene, Biphenylene, and Net‐Graphene

Z Tong, A Pecchia, CY Yam, T Dumitrică… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although isolated nonhexagonal carbon rings in graphene are associated with strain
relaxation and curvature, dense and ordered arrangements of four‐, five‐, and eight …

Glass-like Transport Dominates Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Modular Crystalline Bi4O4SeCl2

Z Tong, A Pecchia, CY Yam, T Dumitrica… - Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Crystalline Bi4O4SeCl2 exhibits record-low 0.1 W/mK lattice thermal conductivity (κ L), but
the underlying transport mechanism is not yet understood. Using a theoretical framework …

[HTML][HTML] Modulating thermal transport in polymers and interfaces: theories, simulations, and experiments

B Zhang, P Mao, Y Liang, Y He, W Liu… - ES Energy & …, 2019 - espublisher.com
Bulk polymers are often regarded as thermal insulators due to low thermal conductivity,
which extremely limits their applications in the field of heat transfer. Over the past decades …

[HTML][HTML] Helical van der Waals crystals with discretized Eshelby twist

Y Liu, J Wang, S Kim, H Sun, F Yang, Z Fang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The ability to manipulate the twisting topology of van der Waals structures offers a new
degree of freedom through which to tailor their electrical and optical properties. The twist …

Electron transfer across a thermal gradient

GT Craven, A Nitzan - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Charge transfer is a fundamental process that underlies a multitude of phenomena in
chemistry and biology. Recent advances in observing and manipulating charge and heat …

Impact of screw and edge dislocations on the thermal conductivity of individual nanowires and bulk GaN: A molecular dynamics study

K Termentzidis, M Isaiev, A Salnikova… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the thermal transport properties of wurtzite GaN in the presence of dislocations
using molecular dynamics simulations. A variety of isolated dislocations in a nanowire …

Thermal conductivity of strained silicon: Molecular dynamics insight and kinetic theory approach

V Kuryliuk, O Nepochatyi, P Chantrenne… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we investigated the tensile and compression forces effect on the thermal
conductivity of silicon. We used the equilibrium molecular dynamics approach for the …