Carbon nanotubes, in which the two-dimensional hexagonal lattice of graphene is
transformed into a quasi-one-dimensional lattice by conserving the local bond arrangement …

Silver nanowires have been synthesized by a polyol process. A detailed parametric study
determining the relationship between final morphology of the products and temperature …

In this colloquia review we discuss methods for thermal transport calculations for
nanojunctions connected to two semi-infinite leads served as heat-baths. Our emphases are …

An approach is presented for the atomistic study of phonon transport in real dielectric
nanowires via Green's functions. The formalism is applied to investigate the phonon flow …

The technology to build and study nanowires with sizes ranging from individual atoms to
tens of nanometres has been developing rapidly over the last few years. We survey the …

We investigate curvature effects on geometric parameters, energetics, and electronic
structure of zigzag nanotubes with fully optimized geometries from first-principle …

A general many-body nonequilibrium Green's function approach for interacting phonons is
developed, and applied to study the thermal conductance of an anharmonic molecular …

The rapid, microwave-assisted aerobic synthesis of silver nanowires based on the polyol
method is described. Benchtop dissolution of NaCl and AgNO3 (ratio 1: 6 to 1: 3) in ethylene …

Nanotube? lms and articles and methods of making the same are disclosed. A conductive
article includes an aggregate of nanotube segments in Which the nanotube segments …

Electromechanical circuits, such as memory cells, and methods for making same are
disclosed. The circuits include a structure having electrically conductive traces and supports …