Cao Bing-Yang and Hou Quan-Wen 2008 Chinese Phys. Lett. 25 1392 doi:10.1088/0256-307X/25/4/062
Cao Bing-Yang1 and Hou Quan-Wen1
Show affiliationsA carbon-nanotube-atom fixed and activated scheme of non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations is put forward to extract the thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) embedded in solid argon. Though a 6.5% volume fraction of CNTs increases the composite thermal conductivity to about twice as much as that of the pure basal material, the thermal conductivity of CNTs embedded in solids is found to be decreased by 1/8-1/5 with reference to that of pure ones. The decrease of the intrinsic thermal conductivity of the solid-embedded CNTs and the thermal interface resistance are demonstrated to be responsible for the results.
66.70.-f Nonelectronic thermal conduction and heat-pulse propagation in solids; thermal waves
Issue 4 (April 2008)
Received 24 December 2007
Cao Bing-Yang and Hou Quan-Wen 2008 Chinese Phys. Lett. 25 1392
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