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Jennifer R. Lukes

University of Pennsylvania
Verified email at seas.upenn.edu
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Interfacial thermal resistance between carbon nanotubes: Molecular dynamics simulations and analytical thermal modeling

H Zhong, JR Lukes - Physical Review B, 2006 - APS
Interfacial thermal transport between offset parallel (10, 10) single-wall carbon nanotubes is
investigated by molecular dynamics simulation and analytical thermal modeling as a …

Single wall carbon nanotube/polyethylene nanocomposites: thermal and electrical conductivity

R Haggenmueller, C Guthy, JR Lukes… - …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The thermal and electrical conductivities in nanocomposites of single walled carbon nanotubes
(SWNT) and polyethylene (PE) are investigated in terms of SWNT loading, the degree of …

Thermal conductivity of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes

JR Lukes, H Zhong - 2007 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Despite the significant amount of research on carbon nanotubes, the thermal conductivity of
individual single-wall carbon nanotubes has not been well established. To date only a few …

Monte Carlo simulation of silicon nanowire thermal conductivity

Y Chen, D Li, JR Lukes, A Majumdar - 2005 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Monte Carlo simulation is applied to investigate phonon transport in single crystalline Si
nanowires. Phonon-phonon normal ( N ) and Umklapp ( U ) scattering processes are modeled …

Wetting characteristics of insect wing surfaces

…, JH Ko, YJ Lee, HC Park, BK Byun, JR Lukes - Journal of Bionic …, 2009 - Springer
Biological tiny structures have been observed on many kinds of surfaces such as lotus
leaves, which have an effect on the coloration of Morpho butterflies and enhance the …

Minimum superlattice thermal conductivity from molecular dynamics

Y Chen, D Li, JR Lukes, Z Ni, M Chen - Physical Review B, 2005 - APS
The dependence of superlattice thermal conductivity on period length is investigated by
molecular dynamics simulation. For perfectly lattice matched superlattices, a minimum is …

Molecular dynamics study of solid thin-film thermal conductivity

JR Lukes, DY Li, XG Liang… - J. Heat …, 2000 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This study uses the molecular dynamics computational technique to investigate the thermal
conductivity of solid thin films in the direction perpendicular to the film plane. In order to …

One-way phonon isolation in acoustic waveguides

…, AM Mahmoud, N Engheta, JR Lukes - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We present a method to achieve one-way phonon isolation in acoustic waveguides by
considering spatio-temporal modulation of material properties. One-way conversion between …

Evaluating broader impacts of nanoscale thermal transport research

L Shi, C Dames, JR Lukes, P Reddy… - Nanoscale and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The past two decades have witnessed the emergence and rapid growth of the research field
of nanoscale thermal transport. Much of the work in this field has been fundamental studies …

Strain-and defect-mediated thermal conductivity in silicon nanowires

KF Murphy, B Piccione, MB Zanjani, JR Lukes… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The unique thermal transport of insulating nanostructures is attributed to the convergence of
material length scales with the mean free paths of quantized lattice vibrations known as …