The importance of localized modes spectral contribution to thermal conductivity in amorphous polymers

Lattice dynamics and molecular dynamics simulations are used to analyze normal modes and thermal conductivity of amorphous polymers. Here, the authors show that the localized modes are dominant, both in mode population and in their contributions to thermal conductivity for all three examples of amor...

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Main Authors: Buxuan Li, Freddy DeAngelis, Gang Chen, Asegun Henry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Communications Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-01103-x