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Ghosh A, Shadman Ahmed S, Shawkat MSA, Subrina S. Numerical characterization of thermal transport in hexagonal tungsten disulfide (WS 2) nanoribbons. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2024; 35:395708. [PMID: 38906122 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ad5a9f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 06/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/23/2024]
Abstract
In this study, we have investigated the thermal transport characteristics of single-layer tungsten disulfide, WS2nanoribbons (SLTDSNRs) using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations with the help of Green-Kubo formulation. Using Stillinger-Weber (SW) inter-atomic potential, the calculated room temperature thermal conductivities of 15 nm × 4 nm pristine zigzag and armchair SLTDSNRs are 126 ± 10 W m-1K-1and 110 ± 6 W m-1K-1, respectively. We have explored the dependency of thermal conductivity on temperature, width, and length of the nanoribbon. The study shows that the thermal conductivity of the nanoribbon decreases with the increase in temperature, whereas the thermal conductivity increases with an increase in either the width or length of the ribbon. The thermal conductivity does not increase uniformly as the size of the ribbon changes. We have also observed that the thermal conductivity of SLTDSNRs depends on edge orientations; the zigzag nanoribbon has greater thermal conductivity than the armchair nanoribbon, regardless of temperature or dimension variations. Our study additionally delves into the tunable thermal properties of SLTDSNRs by incorporating defects, namely vacancies such as point vacancy, edge vacancy, and bi-vacancy. The thermal conductivities of nanoribbons with defects have been found to be considerably lower than their pristine counterparts, which aid in enhanced values for the thermoelectric figure of merit (zT). We have varied the vacancy concentration within a range of 0.1% to 0.9% and found that a point vacancy concentration of 0.1% leads to a 64% reduction in the thermal conductivity of SLTDSNRs. To elucidate these phenomena, we have calculated the phonon density of states for WS2under different aspects. The findings of our work provide important understandings of the prospective applications of WS2in nanoelectronic and thermoelectric devices by tailoring the thermal transport properties of WS2nanoribbons.
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- Aroni Ghosh
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33174, United States of America
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh
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Ma Y, Dong P, He Y, Zhao Z, Zhang X, Yang J, Yan J, Li W. Freezing of water and melting of ice: theoretical modeling at the nanoscale. NANOSCALE 2023; 15:18004-18014. [PMID: 37909355 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr02421k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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Freezing of water and melting of ice at the nanoscale play critical roles in science and technology fields, including aviation systems, infrastructures, and other broad spectrum of technologies. To cope with the icing challenge, nanoscale anti-icing surface technology has been developed. The freezing and melting temperatures can be tailored by manipulating the size (the radius of water or ice); however, it lacks systemic research. In this work, the size effect on the melting temperature of ice nanocrystals was first established, which considered the variation of bond energy and equivalent heat energy from the perspective of the force-heat equivalence energy density principle. Based on the heterogeneous nucleation mode and by further considering the size and temperature effects on the interface energy involved solid-liquid energy and liquid-vapor energy as well as the above developed melting temperature model, another model is established to accurately predict the freezing temperature of water nanodroplets. The parameters required by the two models established in this paper have a clear physical meaning and establish the quantitative relationships among freezing temperature, melting temperature, surface stress, interface energy, and other thermodynamic parameters. The agreement between model prediction and experimental simulation data confirms the validity and universality of the established models. The higher prediction accuracy of this work compared to the other theoretical models, due to the more detailed consideration and the reference point, captures the errors introduced by the experiment or simulation. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanism of freezing of water and melting of ice nanocrystals and provides theoretical guidance for the design of cryopreservation systems and anti-icing systems for aviation.
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- Yanli Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China.
- College of Aerospace Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China.
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- High School Affiliated to Southwest University, Chongqing, 400799, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China.
- College of Aerospace Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
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Jiang X, Sheng H, Xiao B. Size effect on Debye temperature of metal crystals. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:29310-29314. [PMID: 37876304 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04236g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2023]
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Understanding the physical origin of materials exhibiting different properties at the mesoscale is of great significance for the design and fabrication of multifunctional quantum devices. In this work, we proposed a simple model without any adjustable parameters to describe the size (D) dependence of Debye temperature ΘD(D) of metallic nanocrystals. ΘD(D) drops with the decrease of D, which is verified by relevant experimental and simulation results. In addition, we found that the difference in the size dependence of ΘD(D) of different metal elements is determined by the ratio of the solid/liquid interface energy γsl and surface stress f, and the smaller the D of the nanocrystals, the greater the influence of γsl/f on ΘD(D)/ΘD.
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- Xiaobao Jiang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212003, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212003, China.
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- School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212003, China
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