Heat transfer in thermoelectric materials and devices

Z Tian, S Lee, G Chen - Journal of Heat Transfer, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Solid-state thermoelectric devices are currently used in applications ranging from
thermocouple sensors to power generators in space missions, to portable air-conditioners …

Comprehensive review of heat transfer in thermoelectric materials and devices

Z Tian, S Lee, G Chen - Annual review of heat transfer, 2014 - dl.begellhouse.com
Solid-state thermoelectric devices are currently used in applications ranging from
thermocouple sensors to power generators in satellites, to portable air-conditioners and …

Enhancing and tuning phonon transport at vibrationally mismatched solid-solid interfaces

TS English, JC Duda, JL Smoyer, DA Jordan… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
The thermal conductance of interfaces plays a major role in defining the thermal properties
of nanostructured materials in which heat transfer is predominantly phonon mediated …

High thermal conductivity epoxy-silver composites based on self-constructed nanostructured metallic networks

K Pashayi, HR Fard, F Lai, S Iruvanti… - Journal of applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate epoxy-silver nanoparticle composites with high thermal conductivity κ
enabled by self-constructed nanostructured networks (SCNN) forming during the curing …

A general analytical solution for heat conduction in cylindrical multilayer composite laminates

MH Kayhani, M Norouzi, AA Delouei - International Journal of Thermal …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents a steady analytical solution for heat conduction in a cylindrical
multilayer composite laminate in which the fiber direction may vary between layers. The …

Size effect and transient phonon transport mechanism in approach-to-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

Y Sheng, Y Hu, Z Fan, H Bao - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Approach-to-equilibrium molecular dynamics (AEMD) is a widely used molecular dynamics
(MD) method to extract thermal transport properties in different material systems. Despite the …

A molecular dynamics study on heat conduction characteristics in DPPC lipid bilayer

T Nakano, G Kikugawa, T Ohara - The Journal of chemical physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations were performed on a single
component 1, 2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine lipid bilayer in order to …

Computational study of thermal rectification from nanostructured interfaces

NA Roberts, DG Walker - 2011 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Thermal rectification is a phenomenon in which transport is preferred in one direction over
the opposite. Although observations of thermal rectification have been elusive, it could be …

Thermoelectric effects and size dependency of the figure-of-merit in cylindrical nanowires

A Sellitto, VA Cimmelli, D Jou - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2013 - Elsevier
Nonlocal transport equations for phonon and electron contributions to the heat flux, and for
the electron contribution to the electric current, including thermoelectric effects, are …

Mesoscopic description of boundary effects in nanoscale heat transport

FX Alvarez, VA Cimmelli, D Jou, A Sellitto - Nanoscale Systems, 2012 - iris.unibas.it
We review some of the most important phenomena due to the phonon-wall collisions in
nonlocal heat transport in nanosystems, and show how they may be described through …