Quantitative prediction of grain boundary thermal conductivities from local atomic environments

Connecting grain boundary structures to macroscopic thermal behaviour is an important step in materials analysis and design. Here the authors develop a physical model combined with a machine-learning approach to accurately predict thermal conductivities of various types of MgO grain boundaries.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Susumu Fujii, Tatsuya Yokoi, Craig A. J. Fisher, Hiroki Moriwake, Masato Yoshiya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15619-9