Atomistic Simulations of Heat Transport in Carbon Nanotubes Effected by Temperature and Stretch Strain

2011 ◽  
Vol 320 ◽  
pp. 38-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Yuan Meng ◽  
Yu Fei Gao ◽  
Xian Qin

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is a well thermal transport nano materials, however, the thermal conductivity of CNTs has not been well established, only a few groups had reported experimental data and the existed simulation results ranged widely. Specially, the conclusions in low temperature section and dynamic structures were not very clearly. In this paper, the methods based on phonon scattering theory were applied to explore the thermal transport properties CNTs. The investigation was carried out under the conditions of temperature and axial strain. In the consideration of quantum effect, the thermal conductivity increased linearly with the growth of temperature in low-temperature section, and began to decrease gradually when the temperature exceeded a definite value. If an axial strain was concerned, there was an increasing trend of thermal conductivity as the stretch strain increases. However, after the strain exceeded a particular value the thermal conductivity decreased significantly. In addition, the high frequency phonon peak in PDOS was found to be an important parameter in describing thermal transport properties of dynamic structures.

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Yeol Hwang ◽  
Eun Sung Kim ◽  
Syed Waqar Hasan ◽  
Soon-Mok Choi ◽  
Kyu Hyoung Lee ◽  
...  

Highly dense pore structure was generated by simple sequential routes using NaCl and PVA as porogens in conventional PbTe thermoelectric materials, and the effect of pores on thermal transport properties was investigated. Compared with the pristine PbTe, the lattice thermal conductivity values of pore-generated PbTe polycrystalline bulks were significantly reduced due to the enhanced phonon scattering by mismatched phonon modes in the presence of pores (200 nm–2 μm) in the PbTe matrix. We obtained extremely low lattice thermal conductivity (~0.56 W m−1 K−1at 773 K) in pore-embedded PbTe bulk after sonication for the elimination of NaCl residue.


2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 721-727
Author(s):  
Yerim Yang ◽  
TaeWan Kim ◽  
Seokown Hong ◽  
Jiwoo An ◽  
Sang-il Kim

In this study, we report the influence of Te vacancy formation on the thermoelectric properties of n-type Cu0.008Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 alloys, including their electronic and thermal transport properties. Te-deficient Cu0.008Bi2Te2.7-xSe0.3 (x = 0, 0.005, 0.01 and 0.02) samples were systematically synthesized and characterized. Regarding electronic transport properties, carrier concentration was increased with Te vacancies, while carrier mobility was maintained. As a result, the electrical conductivity significantly increased while the Seebeck coefficient reduced moderately, thus, the power factor was enhanced from 3.04 mW/mK<sup>2</sup> (pristine) to 3.22 mW/mK<sup>2</sup> (x = 0.02) at 300 K. Further analysis based on a single parabolic band model revealed that the weighted mobility of the conduction band increased, which is favorable for electron transport, as Te vacancies were generated. Regarding thermal transport properties, lattice thermal conductivity decreased with Te vacancies due to additional point defect phonon scattering, however, total thermal conductivity increased due to larger electronic contribution as Te vacancies increased. Analysis using the Debye-Callaway model suggests that the phonon scattering by the Te vacancies is as efficient as the substitution point defect scattering. Consequently, the thermoelectric figure of merit zT increased at all temperatures for x = 0.005 and 0.01. The maximum zT of 0.95 was achieved for Te-deficient Cu0.008Bi2Te2.69Se0.3 (x = 0.01) at 400 K.


Author(s):  
Sushan Nakarmi ◽  
V. U. Unnikrishnan

The increasing demand for system miniaturization and high power density energy produces excessive thermal loads on electronic devices with significant mechanical strain. Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) based devices are found to have excellent thermal transport properties that makes them attractive for thermal management of these miniaturized nano-electronic devices under extreme environments. These conductive nanostructure (carbon nanotubes, graphene, etc.) are often embedded in polymers or other high-strain alloys (the matrix phase), and are used as bridging materials for conductivity (electrical and thermal) with strain resiliency. The effect of strain on the thermal transport properties of these nanostructures have often been overlooked and will be the focus of this work. The thermal conductivity of the nanostructure is obtained in LAMMPS using the Heat-Bath method, which is a reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (RNEMD) simulation strategy. In RNEMD, constant amount of heat is added to and removed from hot and cold regions and the resultant temperature gradient is measured. The effect of strain on the thermal conductivity of the single and multiwalled nanostructures of various configurations will be discussed with specific emphasis on the phonon density of states of nanotubes at different strain states.


RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (39) ◽  
pp. 24456-24465
Author(s):  
Rapaka S. C. Bose ◽  
K. Ramesh

Polycrystalline p-type Sb1.5Bi0.5Te3 (SBT) and n-type Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 (BTS) compounds possessing layered crystal structure show anisotropic electronic and thermal transport properties.


1996 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 1071-1074 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Edagawa ◽  
M. A. Chernikov ◽  
A. D. Bianchi ◽  
E. Felder ◽  
U. Gubler ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 5832-5838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiang-Jiang Ma ◽  
Jing-Jing Zheng ◽  
Wei-Dong Li ◽  
Dong-Hong Wang ◽  
Bao-Tian Wang

The defects in monolayer MoSe2 have a significant effect on its lattice thermal conductivity.


2001 ◽  
Vol 691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donny W. Winkler ◽  
Terry M. Tritt ◽  
Robert Gagnon ◽  
J. Strom-Olsen

ABSTRACTQuasicrystals have properties associated with both crystalline and amorphous materials. These properties appear to be sensitive to both composition and annealing conditions. Therefore, it is important to investigate the influence of the microstructure on the electrical and thermal transport properties of quasicrystals. AlPdMn quasicrystal samples were prepared with various levels of Re substituted for the Mn (Al70Pd20Mn10−XReX) and then subjected to different annealing conditions. Electrical resistivity, thermopower and thermal conductivity were measured on each as grown and annealed sample over a broad range of temperature, 10 K < T < 300 K. The relationship between the electrical and thermal transport properties and microstructure will be presented and discussed.


2003 ◽  
Vol 793 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Sorloaica ◽  
A. L. Pope ◽  
D. W. Winkler ◽  
Terry M. Tritt ◽  
V. Keppens ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe electrical and thermal transport properties (electrical resistivity, thermopower, heat capacity and thermal conductivity) of the crystalline phase of the binary Cd6Yb system has been measured over a temperature range from 10 K to 300 K. Evidence for a phase transition in Cd6Yb is observed in the electrical transport properties with distinct changes in the temperature dependence of the resistivity and thermopower around T ≈ 110K. An anomaly in the heat capacity and a thermal conductivity is also observed at this same temperature. Hysteretic behavior is not evident in the temperature dependence of any of the electrical and thermal transport properties. In addition, the elastic properties using resonant ultrasound (RUS) techniques have been investigated over a similar temperature range. A large “resonance dip” is observed in the RUS data at T ≈ 110K, which is indicative of some type of structural change in the crystalline material at this temperature. These data will be presented and discussed in context of the undergoes reversible order-disorder transition in the 1/1 cubic approximant at about 110 K, which makes the system very interesting compared to the quasicrystal phase Cd5.7Yb


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