The Thermal Conductivity of Organic Vapours: The Influence of Molecular Interaction

1953 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
RG Vines

A study has been made of the thermal conductivities of a number of simple organic vapours at various pressures and temperatures. The measurements indicate that the variation of conductivity with pressure is a function of gas imperfection ; for substances with appreciable dipole interaction the effect is large, but for other substances where gas imperfection involves only van der Waals forces, the effect is much less. In all cases it is probable that the change in specific beat of the vapour with pressure is the main cause of the observed conductivity variation.

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 015103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyeong Hyun Park ◽  
Mohamed Mohamed ◽  
Zlatan Aksamija ◽  
Umberto Ravaioli

Author(s):  
Weiyu Chen ◽  
Zhonghua Ni ◽  
Juekuan Yang ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Deyu Li ◽  
...  

A non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulation model is established to investigate the impact of vdW strength on thermal transport along the in-plane direction in argon bi-layer films (BLFs) and silicon BLFs. Simulation results indicate that higher strength leads to a higher in-plane thermal conductivity. However, interface roughness also increases with the continuous increase of the van der Waals (vdW) strength and leads to the reduction of thermal conductivities. The bonding strength does play an important role in manipulating thermal conductivity of multilayer thin films.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Straus ◽  
Robert J. Cava

The design of new chiral materials usually requires stereoselective organic synthesis to create molecules with chiral centers. Less commonly, achiral molecules can self-assemble into chiral materials, despite the absence of intrinsic molecular chirality. Here, we demonstrate the assembly of high-symmetry molecules into a chiral van der Waals structure by synthesizing crystals of C<sub>60</sub>(SnI<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub> from icosahedral buckminsterfullerene (C<sub>60</sub>) and tetrahedral SnI4 molecules through spontaneous self-assembly. The SnI<sub>4</sub> tetrahedra template the Sn atoms into a chiral cubic three-connected net of the SrSi<sub>2</sub> type that is held together by van der Waals forces. Our results represent the remarkable emergence of a self-assembled chiral material from two of the most highly symmetric molecules, demonstrating that almost any molecular, nanocrystalline, or engineered precursor can be considered when designing chiral assemblies.


Small ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 2102585
Author(s):  
Sofie Cambré ◽  
Ming Liu ◽  
Dmitry Levshov ◽  
Keigo Otsuka ◽  
Shigeo Maruyama ◽  
...  

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1916-1927
Author(s):  
Jianmei Huang ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Pengfei Liu ◽  
Guang-hui Chen ◽  
Yanhui Yang

The evolution of the interface and interaction of h-BN and graphene/h-BN (Gr/h-BN) on Cu(111)–Ni and Ni(111)–Cu surface alloys versus the Ni/Cu atomic percentage on the alloy surface were comparatively studied by DFT-D2, including critical long-range van der Waals forces.


2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 430-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Li ◽  
H.H. Hng ◽  
J. Ma ◽  
X.Y. Qin

The thermoelectric properties of Nb-doped Zn4Sb3 compounds, (Zn1–xNbx)4Sb3 (x = 0, 0.005, and 0.01), were investigated at temperatures ranging from 300 to 685 K. The results showed that by substituting Zn with Nb, the thermal conductivities of all the Nb-doped compounds were lower than that of the pristine β-Zn4Sb3. Among the compounds studied, the lightly substituted (Zn0.995Nb0.005)4Sb3 compound exhibited the best thermoelectric performance due to the improvement in both its electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity. Its figure of merit, ZT, was greater than the undoped Zn4Sb3 compound for the temperature range investigated. In particular, the ZT of (Zn0.995Nb0.005)4Sb3 reached a value of 1.1 at 680 K, which was 69% greater than that of the undoped Zn4Sb3 obtained in this study.


1991 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Chunqing ◽  
Qian Yiyu ◽  
Jiang Yihong

AbstractIn this paper,a numerical simulation of thermal process in the SMT laser microsoldering joint has been developed, in which, the influence on thermal process of the factors such as the thermal conductivity variation of solder with temperature, light reflection coefficient of the lead wire surface, and heat exchange on the surface of SMT materials all have been considered. In order to carry this numerical calculation practice and prove it's results,the reflexive characteristic of light wave to the SMT materials has been gauged,and the dynamic temperature process of laser microjoint has been measured by a new experimental method which was invented by the authors.The results of numerical simulation have been borne out by the tests, and the influences of heating parameters on thermal process has been analysed in this paper.The conclusions will be advantageous to the further study of the microjoint quality control in the SMT laser microsoldering.


Author(s):  
Milivoje M. Kostic ◽  
Casey J. Walleck

A steady-state, parallel-plate thermal conductivity (PPTC) apparatus has been developed and used for comparative measurements of complex POLY-nanofluids, in order to compare results with the corresponding measurements using the transient, hotwire thermal conductivity (HWTC) apparatus. The related measurements in the literature, mostly with HWTC method, have been inconsistent and with measured thermal conductivities far beyond prediction using the well-known mixture theory. The objective was to check out if existing and well-established HWTC method might have some unknown issues while measuring TC of complex nano-mixture suspensions, like electro-magnetic phenomena, undetectable hot-wire vibrations, and others. These initial and limited measurements have shown considerable difference between the two methods, where the TC enhancements measured with PPTC apparatus were about three times smaller than with HWTC apparatus, the former data being much closer to the mixture theory prediction. However, the influence of measurement method is not conclusive since it has been observed that the complex nano-mixture suspensions were very unstable during the lengthy steady-state measurements as compared to rather quick transient HWTC method. The nanofluid suspension instability might be the main reason for very inconsistent results in the literature. It is necessary to expend investigation with more stable nano-mixture suspensions.


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