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Thermal transports of one-dimensional ultrathin carbon structures

Materials Science 2020-01-08 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

Carbon atomic chain, linear benzene polymers, and carbon nanothreads are all one-dimensional (1D) ultrathin carbon structures. They possess excellent electronic and mechanical properties; however, their thermal transport properties have been rarely explored. Here, we systematically study their thermal conductance by combining the nonequilibrium Green's function and force field methods. The thermal conductance varies from 0.24 to 1.00 nW/K at 300 K, and phonon transport in the linear benzene polymers and carbon nanothreads is strongly dependent on the connectivity styles between the benzene rings. We propose a simple 1D model, namely force-constant model, that explains the complicated transport processes in these structures. Our study not only reveals intrinsic mechanisms of phonon transport in these carbon structures, but also provides an effective method to analyze thermal properties of other 1D ultrathin structures made of only several atomic chains.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09461,
  title  = {Thermal transports of one-dimensional ultrathin carbon structures},
  author = {Jing Xue and Yuee Xie1 and Qing Peng and Yuanping Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09461},
  year   = {2020}
}