Thermal conductivity and thermal rectification in carbon nanotubes with geometric variations of doped nitrogen: Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 374, Issue 48, 2010, Pages 4885-4889

  Chien, Shih Kai ^a   Yang, Yue Tzu ^a   Chen, Cha'O Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Molecular dynamics; Nitrogen doping; Thermal rectification

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HEAT TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NITROGEN;

DOPED NITROGEN; GEOMETRIC VARIATIONS; HEAT TRANSPORT; NITROGEN DOPED CARBON NANOTUBES; NITROGEN-DOPING; NON EQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMIC (NEMD); THERMAL RECTIFICATION;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 78049287685     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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