Open AccessThermal conductivity of carbon nanotube cable type composite
Author(s) -
Jingjing Tang,
Yanhui Feng,
Wei Li,
Liu Cui,
Xinxin Zhang
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.62.226102
Subject(s) - carbon nanotube , materials science , thermal conductivity , composite number , nanowire , molecular dynamics , composite material , phonon , atmospheric temperature range , mean free path , carbon fibers , conductivity , atom (system on chip) , nanotube , nanotechnology , condensed matter physics , thermodynamics , computational chemistry , chemistry , electron , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , embedded system
For single-wall carbon nanotubes filled with gold nanowires, a kind of carbon nanotube cable type composite material, its thermal conductivity is simulated by non-equilibrium molecular dynamics method. The Tersoff potential is employed for C-C bonding interactions, the Lennard-Jones potential for C-Au interactions and the embedded atom method potential for Au-Au interactions. It turns out that the electronic thermal conductivity (ETC) of gold nanowire is much lower than that of the composite with the same size, so the ETC of metal nanowire could be ignored. The carbon atoms tend to vibrate along the axial direction of the tube because of the interaction between gold and carbon atoms. Furthermore, the umklapp scatterings among phonons are reduced and the phonon mean free path is increased. Therefore, the thermal conductivity of the composite is 20%45% higher than the bare carbon nanotubes in a temperature range of 100500 K, but the growth rate decreases with the rise of temperature. The thermal conductivity of the composite rises with the increasing of length but in a sharper rate, and decreases with the increasing of diameter in the same rate, which is similar to the bare carbon nanotubes.