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Using molecular dynamics(MD) simulations, we study thermal transport in graphene nanoribbons (GNR) subjected to uniform uniaxial and nonuniform strain fields. We predict significant thermal rectification (over 70%) in a rectangular armchair…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-24 K. G. S. H. Gunawardana , Kieran Mullen , Jiuning Hu , Yong P. Chen , Xiulin Ruan

Thermal rectification in thickness asymmetric graphene nanoribbons connecting single-layer with multi-layer graphene is investigated by using classical nonequilibrium molecular dynamics. It is reported that the graphene nanoribbons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Wei-Rong Zhong , Wei-Hao Huang , Xi-Rong Deng , Bao-Quan Ai

Graphane and graphene are both two-dimensional materials but of different bonding configurations, which can result in distinct thermal conduction properties. We simulate thermal conduction in graphane nanoribbons (GANRs) using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Dengfeng Li , Yong Xu , Xiaobin Chen , Bolin Li , Wenhui Duan

We have studied the thermal properties of bended graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The thermal conductivity of bended GNRs shows a non-monotonous relationship with the bending angle, due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 M. D. Han , L. Miao , J. Mei , J. J. Jiang

Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics is used to investigate the heat current due to the atomic lattice vibrations in graphene nanoribbons and nanorings under a thermal gradient. We consider a wide range of temperature, nanoribbon widths up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 M. Saiz-Bretin , A. V. Malyshev , F. Dominguez-Adame , D. Quigley , R. A. Roemer

In this paper, heat flux in graphene nano ribbons has been studied by using molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that the heat flux runs preferentially along the direction of decreasing width, which demonstrates significant thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-06-08 Nuo Yang , Gang Zhang , Baowen Li

We analyze numerically the thermal conductivity of carbon nanoribbons with ideal and rough edges. We demonstrate that edge disorder can lead to a suppression of thermal conductivity by several orders of magnitude. This effect is associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander V. Savin , Yuri S. Kivshar , Bambi Hu

Using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulation, we study thermal properties of the so-called nanoporous graphene (NPG) sheet which contains a series of nanoporous in an ordered way and was synthesized recently (Science 360…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Farrokh Yousefi , Farhad Khoeini , Ali Rajabpour

Thermal conductance of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with the width varying from 0.5 to 35 nm is systematically investigated using nonequilibrium Green's function method. Anisotropic thermal conductance is observed with the room temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yong Xu , Xiaobin Chen , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan

Using a combination of accurate density-functional theory and a nonequilibrium Green function's method, we calculate the ballistic thermal conductance characteristics of tensile-strained armchair (AGNR) and zigzag (ZGNR) edge graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-22 Pei Shan Emmeline Yeo , Kian Ping Loh , Chee Kwan Gan

Using classical molecular dynamics simulation, we have studied the effect of edge-passivation by hydrogen (H-passivation) and isotope mixture (with random or supperlattice distributions) on the thermal conductivity of rectangular graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-27 Jiuning Hu , Stephen Schiffli , Ajit Vallabhaneni , Xiulin Ruan , Yong P. Chen

First-principles density-functional calculations are performed to investigate the thermal transport properties in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). The dimensional crossover of thermal conductance from one to two dimensions (2D) is clearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jian Wang , Xiao-Ming Wang , Yun-Fei Chen , Jian-Sheng Wang

The conductance of metallic graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with single defects and weak disorder at their edges is investigated in a tight-binding model. We find that a single edge defect will induce quasi-localized states and consequently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-07 T. C. Li , Shao-Ping Lu

We combine density-functional theory and the nonequilibrium Green's function method to study the thermal conductance of graphene nanoribbons with armchair and zigzag edges. Zigzag ribbons have higher thermal conductance than armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 Zhen Wah Tan , Jian-Sheng Wang , Chee Kwan Gan

Research on the physical properties of materials at the nanoscale is crucial for the development of breakthrough nanotechnologies. One of the key properties to consider is the ability to conduct heat, i.e., its thermal conductivity.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Alexandre F. Fonseca , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira

Compared to the study of graphene itself, the study of nano-structured graphene is rather limited because it is difficult to prepare atomically ordered edges. In this study, we have fabricated a periodically patterned mesh structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Takamoto Yokosawa , Tomohiro Matsui

The magnetoconductance of graphene nanoribbons with rough zigzag and armchair edges is studied by numerical simulations. nanoribbons with sufficiently small bulk disorder show a pronounced magnetoconductance minimum at cyclotron radii close…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel , I. V. Zozoulenko

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with widths down to 16 nm have been characterized for their current-carrying capacity. It is found that GNRs exhibit an impressive breakdown current density, on the order of 10^8 A/cm2. The breakdown current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Raghunath Murali , Yinxiao Yang , Kevin Brenner , Thomas Beck , James D. Meindl

Thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons (GNR) with length 106~{\AA} and width 4.92~{\AA} after isotopic doping is investigated by molecular dynamics with quantum correction. Two interesting phenomena are found: (1) isotopic doping…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Jin-Wu Jiang , Jinghua Lan , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

We investigated the atomic structures, Raman spectroscopic and electrical transport properties of individual graphene nanoribbons (GNRs, widths ~10-30 nm) derived from sonochemical unzipping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs).…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-21 Liming Xie , Hailiang Wang , Chuanhong Jin , Xinran Wang , Liying Jiao , Kazu Suenaga , Hongjie Dai
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