Thermal Transport in Nano Structured Carbon Nanotubes and Its Thermal Conductance

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1Ravi Kumar* and 2Arun Kumar Khan

Bulletin of Pure and Applied Science

Physics, Vol.42D No.2,

July-December  2023 P.93-97

Original Research Article
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1Ravi Kumar* and 2Arun Kumar Khan

Author’s Affiliations: 1Research Scholar, University Department of Physics, B.N. Mandal University, Madhepura, North Campus, Singheshwar, 852128, Bihar, India.

E-mail: ravisaing3@gmail.com

2Department of Physics, R. M. College, Saharsa, Bihar 852201, India.

E-mail: arunkumarkhan@gmail.com

 

*Corresponding author: Ravi Kumar

Research Scholar, University Department of Physics, B.N. Mandal University, Madhepura, North Campus, Singheshwar, 852128, Bihar, India.

E-mail: ravisaing3@gmail.com

 

Abstract
ABSTRACT We have studied thermal transport in nano-structured carbon nanotubes and have calculated its thermal conductance using the nonequilibrium Green’s function method. The thermal conductance of carbon nanotubes linearly depended on the width of the unzipped part of the carbon nanotube but exponentially decayed and then converged to a finite value of the unzipped length increased. But characteristics are unusual to common bulk materials but are universal to nano materials of nanotube and graphene like structures. An exponentially decayed thermal conductance with the length was found at interfaces. Electronic conductance was found to show an exponential thermal transport in carbon nanotubes showed features distinctly different from those in common bulk materials. Carbon nanotubes have been found strong structural imperfections; their thermal conductance exhibited unexpectedly perfect linear scaling behavior as the width of the unzipped part changed. As the unzipped length increased, thermal conductance exponentially decreased by the one dimensional atomic chain model. The obtained results were found in good agreement with previous results.  
KEYWORDS Thermal Transport, Nano Structure, Carbon Nanotube, Thermal Conductance, Non-Equilibrium, Green Function, Interfacial, Unzipped, Imperfection.