Departmental Papers (MEAM)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
September 2006
Abstract
Interfacial thermal transport between offset parallel (10,10) single-wall carbon nanotubes is investigated by molecular dynamics simulation and analytical thermal modeling as a function of nanotube spacing, overlap, and length. A four order of magnitude reduction in interfacial thermal resistance is found as the nanotubes are brought into intimate contact. A reduction is also found for longer nanotubes and for nanotubes with increased overlap area. Thermal resistance between a nanotube and a reservoir at its boundary increases with decreasing reservoir temperature. Additionally, length-dependent Young's moduli and damping coefficients are calculated based on observed nanotube deflections.
Keywords
elastic properties, electrical-conductivity, mechanical-properties, boundary resistance, youngs modulus, heat-flow, composites, nanocomposites, dependence, transport
Date Posted: 26 October 2006
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Reprinted from Physical Review B, Volume 74, 2006, 125403, 1-10.
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.125403