DOI: 10.1063/1.3567415. Chirality and thickness-dependent thermal conductivity of few-layer graphene: A molecular dynamics study

Chirality and thickness-dependent thermal conductivity of few-layer graphene: A molecular dynamics study

10.1063/1.3567415

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Abstract

The thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons (layer from 1 to 8 atomic planes) is investigated by using the nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method. We present that the room-temperature thermal conductivity decays monotonically with the number of the layers in few-layer graphene. The superiority of zigzag graphene in thermal conductivity is only available in high temperature region and disappears in multilayer case. It is explained that the phonon spectral shrink in high frequency induces the change in thermal conductivity. It is also reported that single-layer graphene has better ballistic transport property than the multilayer graphene.

Bibliography

Zhong, W.-R., Zhang, M.-P., Ai, B.-Q., & Zheng, D.-Q. (2011). Chirality and thickness-dependent thermal conductivity of few-layer graphene: A molecular dynamics study. Applied Physics Letters, 98(11).

Authors 4

Wei-Rong Zhong (first)
Mao-Ping Zhang (additional)
Bao-Quan Ai (additional)
Dong-Qin Zheng (additional)

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Dates

Type	When
Created	14 years, 5 months ago (March 15, 2011, 7:23 p.m.)
Deposited	2 years, 2 months ago (July 2, 2023, 6:16 p.m.)
Indexed	1 month ago (July 30, 2025, 6:56 a.m.)
Issued	14 years, 5 months ago (March 14, 2011)
Published	14 years, 5 months ago (March 14, 2011)
Published Online	14 years, 5 months ago (March 15, 2011)
Published Print	14 years, 5 months ago (March 14, 2011)

Funders 1

National Natural Science Foundation of China 10.13039/501100001809
Region: Asia
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Labels11
1. Chinese National Science Foundation
2. Natural Science Foundation of China
3. National Science Foundation of China
4. NNSF of China
5. NSF of China
6. 国家自然科学基金委员会
7. National Nature Science Foundation of China
8. Guójiā Zìrán Kēxué Jījīn Wěiyuánhuì
9. NSFC
10. NNSF
11. NNSFC
Awards1
1. 11004082

BibTeX

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