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Tungsten is a promising candidate material for plasma-facing armour components in future fusion reactors. A key concern is irradiation-induced degradation of its normally excellent thermal transport properties. In this comprehensive study,…
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The large size single crystals of (SnSe)$_{1.16}$(NbSe$_2$) misfit layered compound were grown and superconductivity with $T_c$ of 3.4 K was first discovered in this system. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and high resolution transmission…
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We perform a theoretical investigation on the thermal conductivity of single-walled boron nitride nanotubes (SWBNT) using the kinetic theory. By fitting to the phonon spectrum of boron nitride sheet, we develop an efficient and stable…
Thermal transport behavior in silicene nanotubes has become more important due to the application of these promising nanostructures in the engineering of next-generation nanoelectronic devices. We apply non-equilibrium molecular dynamics…
Very recently, a novel two-dimension (2D) MXene, MoSi$_2$N$_4$, was successfully synthesized with excellent ambient stability, high carrier mobility, and moderate band gap (Science 369, 670, 2020). In this work, the intrinsic lattice…
The lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa$) of newly synthesized two-dimensional (2D) MoSi$_2$N$_4$ family and its associated abnormality is anatomized by $ab$ $initio$ phonon Boltzmann transport calculations. $\kappa$ of MoSi$_2$N$_4$ and…
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