Carbon nanocone: A promising thermal rectifier
Nuo YangNational University of Singapore 1 Department of Physics and Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, , Singapore 117542, SingaporeGang ZhangInstitute of Microelectronics 2 , 11 Science Park Road, Singapore Science Park II, Singapore 117685, SingaporeBaowen LiNUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering 3 , Singapore 117597, Singapore
2008en
ABI
Abstract
With molecular dynamics simulations, we demonstrate very obvious thermal rectification in large temperature range from 200 to 400 K in nanocone. We also observe that the rectification of nanocone does not depend on the length very sensitively, which is in stark contrast with the nanotube thermal rectifier in which the rectification decreases dramatically as the length increases. Our work demonstrates that carbon nanocone is a promising practical phononic device.
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