Phonon-engineered extreme thermal conductivity materials

X Qian, J Zhou, G Chen - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological
applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat …

Thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes and their polymer nanocomposites: A review

Z Han, A Fina - Progress in polymer science, 2011 - Elsevier
Thermally conductive polymer composites offer new possibilities for replacing metal parts in
several applications, including power electronics, electric motors and generators, heat …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoscale thermal transport. II. 2003–2012

DG Cahill, PV Braun, G Chen, DR Clarke… - Applied physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

Two-dimensional phonon transport in supported graphene

JH Seol, I Jo, AL Moore, L Lindsay, ZH Aitken… - Science, 2010 - science.org
The reported thermal conductivity (κ) of suspended graphene, 3000 to 5000 watts per meter
per kelvin, exceeds that of diamond and graphite. Thus, graphene can be useful in solving …

Thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube networks: A review

B Kumanek, D Janas - Journal of materials science, 2019 - Springer
Depending on their structure and order (individual, films, bundled, buckypapers, etc.),
carbon nanotubes (CNTs) demonstrate different values of thermal conductivity, from the …

Four-phonon scattering significantly reduces intrinsic thermal conductivity of solids

T Feng, L Lindsay, X Ruan - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
For decades, the three-phonon scattering process has been considered to govern thermal
transport in solids, while the role of higher-order four-phonon scattering has been …

Optimized Tersoff and Brenner empirical potential parameters for lattice dynamics and phonon thermal transport in carbon nanotubes and graphene

L Lindsay, DA Broido - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010 - APS
We have examined the commonly used Tersoff and Brenner empirical interatomic potentials
in the context of the phonon dispersions in graphene. We have found a parameter set for …

[HTML][HTML] Size-dependent phononic thermal transport in low-dimensional nanomaterials

Z Zhang, Y Ouyang, Y Cheng, J Chen, N Li, G Zhang - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The reduced dimensionality makes low-dimensional nanomaterials possessing diverse
unusual size-dependent transport properties, due to the distinct quantum confinement …

Flexural phonons and thermal transport in graphene

L Lindsay, DA Broido, N Mingo - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2010 - APS
We show through an exact numerical solution of the phonon Boltzmann equation that the
lattice thermal conductivity of graphene is dominated by contributions from the out-of-plane …

Quantum mechanical prediction of four-phonon scattering rates and reduced thermal conductivity of solids

T Feng, X Ruan - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Recently, first principle-based predictions of lattice thermal conductivity κ from perturbation
theory have achieved significant success. However, it only includes three-phonon scattering …