Heat Conduction of Single-walled Carbon Nanotube in Various Environments

Some of our recent studies on the heat conduction of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are reported. The length-dependence of pure SWNTs is investigated in a range of nanotube lengths up to 3.2μm. Non-equilibrium MD simulations were performed by minimizing the thermal boundary resistance between the thermally controlled layers and the rest of the nanotube, which was found to have a significant influence on the measured thermal conductivity. Furthermore, the heat conduction is investigated in more practical situations under the influence of inter-material interactions and intrinsic thermal resistances due to hetero-tube junctions.