• 文献标题:   Effects of the nitrogen doping configuration and site on the thermal conductivity of defective armchair graphene nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SENTURK AE, OKTEM AS, KONUKMAN AES
  • 作者关键词:   molecular dynamic, armchair graphene nanoribbon agnr, thermal conductivity, defect, nitrogen doping
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING
  • ISSN:   1610-2940 EI 0948-5023
  • 通讯作者地址:   Gebze Tech Univ
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1007/s00894-017-3415-8
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

The influence of the nitrogen (N) doping configuration on the thermal conductivity (TC) of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) of size 15.7 nm x 7.26 nm was investigated using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with the optimized Tersoff potential at room temperature. The effect of changing the N-doping site in defects on the TC of AGNRs was also investigated in detail. The variations with N concentration of the TCs of AGNRs presenting graphitic N (quarternary N), pyridinic N, and pyrrolic N doping configurations were studied. Results of MD simulations showed that, among these three doping configurations, pyridinic N was associated with the highest TC, and pyrrolic N with the lowest TC. The highest TC values were obtained when the N dopant atoms were located at the edges and at defects in the AGNR. The presence of both pyrrolic N and Stone-Wales type 1 (SW1) defects led to a higher TC than the presence of both pyrrolic N and SW-2 defects. Phonon-defect scattering was found to be influenced by changes in C-C bond orientation. SW-1 defects were found to exert a greater influence on the TC than graphitic N doping. Furthermore, the influence on the TC of the N-doping site location in SW-1 defects was examined. Doping the central sites of SW-1 defects was found to yield higher TC values than doping the edge sites of defects. Graphitic-N doping of the more central sites in a SW-1 defect led to a higher TC than the random graphitic-N doping of sites in a SW-1 defect.