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Thermal Transport in Graphene, Few-Layer Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbons

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Thermal Transport in Low Dimensions

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Abstract

The discovery of unusual heat conduction properties of graphene has led to a surge of theoretical and experimental studies of phonon transport in two-dimensional material systems. The rapidly developing graphene thermal field spans from theoretical physics to practical engineering applications. In this invited review we outline different theoretical approaches developed for describing phonon transport in graphene and provide comparison with available experimental thermal conductivity data. A special attention is given to analysis of the recent theoretical results for the phonon thermal conductivity of graphene and few-layer graphene, the effects of the strain, defects, isotopes and edge scattering on the acoustic phonon transport in these material systems.

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The work at UC Riverside was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation (NSF) project CMMI-1404967 Collaborative Research Genetic Algorithm Driven Hybrid Computational Experimental Engineering of Defects in Designer Materials; NSF project ECCS-1307671 Two-Dimensional Performance with Three-Dimensional Capacity: Engineering the Thermal Properties of Graphene, and by the STARnet Center for Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering (FAME)—Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) program sponsored by The Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO) and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). The work at Moldova State University was supported, in part, by the Moldova State Project 15.817.02.29 F and ASM-STCU project #5937.

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Nika, D.L., Balandin, A.A. (2016). Thermal Transport in Graphene, Few-Layer Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbons. In: Lepri, S. (eds) Thermal Transport in Low Dimensions. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 921. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29261-8_9

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