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Thermally driven nanotube nanomotors provide linear mass transportation controlled by a temperature gradient. However, the underlying mechanism is still unclear where the mass transportation velocity in experiment is much lower than that…
A grand challenge in designing polymeric materials is to tune their properties by macromolecular engineering. In this context, one of the drawbacks that often limits broader applications under high temperature conditions is their poor…
Ballistic transport, realized when the system size is smaller than the mean free path of energy carriers, is traditionally regarded as the ultimate limit for energy transfer. Here, we predict a superballistic radiative heat transport regime…
Utilizing atomistic lattice dynamics and scattering theory, we study thermal transport in nanodevices made of 10 nm thick silicon nanowires, from 10 to 100 nm long, sandwiched between two bulk reservoirs. We find that thermal transport in…
We study thermal transport through Pt nanowires that bridge planar contacts as a function of wire length and vibrational frequency of the contacts. When phonons in the contacts have lower average frequencies than those in the wires thermal…
Thermodynamic transport phenomena in the system consisting of many hard-disks confined in a circular tube with a temperature difference are discussed. Here, temperatures on parts of the walls of the tube are imposed by stochastic boundary…
In this paper, we review and substantially develop the recently proposed "Microscopic Response Method", which has been devised to compute transport coefficients and especially associated temperature dependence in complex materials. The…
We report on thermal transport properties in 2 and 3 dimensions interconnected nanowire networks (strings and nodes). The thermal conductivity of these nanostructures decreases in increasing the distance of the nodes, reaching ultra-low…
Gaining a detailed understanding of water transport behavior through ultra-thin polymer membranes is increasingly becoming necessary due to the recent interest in exploring applications such as water desalination using nanoporous membranes.…
Designing polymers with high intrinsic thermal conductivity (TC) is critically important for the thermal management of organic electronics and photonics. However, this is a challenging task owing to the diversity of the chemical space and…
We present molecular dynamics calculations of the thermal conductivity and viscosities of a model colloidal suspension with colloidal particles roughly one order of magnitude larger than the suspending liquid molecules. The results are…
Quantifying the correlation between the complex structures of amorphous materials and their physical properties has been a long-standing problem in materials science. In amorphous Si, a representative covalent amorphous solid, the presence…
We report, for the first time, the observation of ballistic thermal transport in a nonintegrable classical many-body system. This claim is substantiated by appropriately incorporating long-range interactions into the system, which exhibits…
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…
The topological properties of materials are, until now, associated with the features of their crystalline structure, although translational symmetry is not an explicit requirement of the topological phases. Recent studies of hopping models…
With the increasing applications of Phosphorene in nano/optoelectronics and thermoelectrics, a comprehensive study on its thermal transport properties is necessary. It has been concluded from previous studies that there exist vast…
Polymer brush-grafted nanoparticles have significant application value in fields such as gene therapy and targeted drug delivery. A profound understanding of the interaction mechanisms between these particles and cell membranes represents a…
Approach-to-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations have been used to study thermal transport in nanocrystalline graphene sheets. Nanostructured graphene has been created using an iterative process for grain growth from initial seeds…
Understanding the thermal conductivity of polymers under high-pressure conditions is essential for a range of applications, from aerospace and deep-sea engineering to common lubricants. However, the complex relationship between pressure,…
In this work we use molecular simulations to examine methods of controlling mechanical properties of polymeric glass materials such as elastic moduli, mechanical heterogeneity as well as their glass transition temperature. We study filled…