Strong scattering from low-frequency rattling modes results in low thermal conductivity in antimonide clathrate compounds

KM Ciesielski, BR Ortiz, LC Gomes… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent discoveries of materials with ultralow thermal conductivity open a pathway to
significant developments in the field of thermoelectricity. Here, we conduct a comparative …

A deep neural network potential model for theoretically predicting thermal transport, mechanical properties of multi-layered graphitic carbon nitride with molecular …

H Li, L Wu, C Xia, S Huang, M Ni, C Huang… - … Communications in Heat …, 2025 - Elsevier
Graphitic carbon nitride () as a kind of important 2D materials, shows great potential
applications as electric and photoelectric devices. However, most reported works mainly …

Understanding phonon transport properties using classical molecular dynamics simulations

MG Muraleedharan, K Gordiz, A Rohskopf… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Predictive modeling of the phonon/thermal transport properties of materials is vital to rational
design for a diverse spectrum of engineering applications. Classical Molecular Dynamics …

Anomalous mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline binary alloys under extreme conditions

SA Turnage, M Rajagopalan, KA Darling… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Fundamentally, material flow stress increases exponentially at deformation rates exceeding,
typically,~ 103 s− 1, resulting in brittle failure. The origin of such behavior derives from the …

From thermoelectric bulk to nanomaterials: Current progress for Bi2Te3 and CoSb3

N Peranio, O Eibl, S Bäßler, K Nielsch… - … status solidi (a), 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Bi2Te3 and CoSb3 based nanomaterials were synthesized and their thermoelectric,
structural, and vibrational properties analyzed to assess and reduce ZT‐limiting …

Ab initio calculation of the spin lattice relaxation time for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

J Gugler, T Astner, A Angerer, J Schmiedmayer… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We investigate the fundamental mechanism of spin-phonon coupling in the negatively
charged nitrogen-vacancy center (NV−) in diamond in order to calculate the spin lattice …

Resonant Bonding, Multiband Thermoelectric Transport, and Native Defects in n-Type BaBiTe3–xSex (x = 0, 0.05, and 0.1)

S Maier, S Ohno, G Yu, SD Kang… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The unique crystal structure of BaBiTe3 containing Te··· Te resonant bonds and its narrow
band gap motivated the systematic study of the thermoelectric transport properties of …

Mechanical and thermal conductivity properties of BiSbTe nanofilms using molecular dynamics

TY Lai, TH Fang, TH Chen - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this decade, Bi x Sb 2-x Te 3 of Bi 2 Te 3-based thermoelectric (TE) materials has been
proven effective in improving the TE properties and figure of merit (ZT) at room temperature …

Anomalous Behavior of the Elastic and Optical Properties in Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.8Se1.2 Topological Insulator Induced by Point Defects

IV Zhevstovskikh, YS Ponosov, SG Titova… - … status solidi (b), 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The experimental evidence of the defects influence on the optical and elastic properties of
single crystal Bi1. 5Sb0. 5Te1. 8Se1. 2 has been reported. The extra vibrational excitation is …

Origin of ultra-low thermal conductivity in unconventional clathrates: Strong scattering from extremely low-frequency rattling modes

KM Ciesielski, BR Ortiz, LC Gomes, V Meschke… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent discoveries of materials with ultra-low thermal conductivity open a pathway to
significant developments in the field of thermoelectricity. Here, we conduct a comparative …