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The design of efficient electrolysis devices for pure metal production requires accurate data on the properties of the melts used in the process. This work focuses on two key systems for calcium production: the molten Ca-Cu alloy and the…

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We study the thermophysical properties of dense helium plasmas by using quantum molecular dynamics and orbital-free molecular dynamics simulations, where densities are considered from 400 to 800 g/cm$^{3}$ and temperatures up to 800 eV.…

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Phononic silicon structures have emerged as an integrable and scalable nanosystem for tailoring thermal transport. However, their widespread adoption has been limited by their complex fabrication pathways. Alongside, the reliable…

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We present a detailed description of semi-quantum molecular dynamics simulation of stochastic dynamics of a system of interacting particles. Within this approach, the dynamics of the system is described with the use of classical Newtonian…

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Recrystallization of glasses is important in a wide range of applications including electronics and reactive materials. Molecular dynamics (MD) has been used to provide an atomic picture of this process, but prior work has neglected the…

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Heat transfer between a silver nanoparticle and surrounding water has been studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The thermal conductance (Kapitza conductance) at the interface between a nanoparticle and surrounding water has…

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Quantum simulation methods based on density-functional theory are currently deemed unfit to cope with atomic heat transport within the Green-Kubo formalism, because quantum-mechanical energy densities and currents are inherently ill-defined…

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The thermal management have been widely focused due to broad applications. Generally, the deformation can largely tune the thermal transport. The main challenge of flexible electronics/ materials is to maintain thermal conductance under…

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In this work we present a molecular dynamics investigation of thermal transport in a silica-gallium nitride nanocomposite. A surprising enhancement of the thermal conductivity for crystalline volume fractions larger than 5% is found, which…

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Recent molecular dynamics simulation methods have enabled thermal conductivity of bulk materials to be estimated. In these simulations, periodic boundary conditions are used to extend the system dimensions to the thermodynamic limit. Such a…

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