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Download fileSolid–Liquid Thermal Transport and Its Relationship with Wettability and the Interfacial Liquid Structure
journal contribution
posted on 19.08.2016, 00:00 authored by Bladimir Ramos-Alvarado, Satish Kumar, G. P. PetersonExperiments and atomistic
simulations have suggested the existence
of a direct correlation between the wetting properties of a surface
and heat transfer across it. In this investigation, molecular dynamics
simulations of surface wettability and solid–liquid thermal
transport were conducted in order to better understand the relationship
between the surface chemistry and thermal transport. The wettability
transparency of graphene-coated surfaces was considered in order to
investigate heat transfer across a complex interface with similar
wettability as a bare surface. The results indicate that the relationship
between the interfacial heat transfer and wettability is not universal.
The density depletion length was found to reconcile the thermal boundary
conductance calculations for different bare and graphene-coated silicon
surfaces.