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most citedMolecular understanding of charge storage and charging dynamics in supercapacitors with MOF electrodes and ionic liquid electrolytes

623 citations

43 papers

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 49 cited

Collision-induced breakage of agglomerates in homogenous isotropic turbulence laden with adhesive particles

Sheng Chen, Shuiqing Li

We carry out direct numerical simulation combined with adhesive discrete element calculations to investigate collision-induced breakage of agglomerates in homogeneous isotropic tur…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 10 cited

Perturbation theory of thermal rectification

Chuang Zhang, Meng An, Zhaoli Guo +1

Thermal rectification which is a diode-like behavior of heat flux has been studied over a long time. However, a universal and systematic physical description is still lacking. In t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 1 cited

Electric-field-induced modulation of thermal conductivity in poly(vinylidene fluoride)

Shichen Deng, Jiale Yuan, Yuli Lin +6

Phonon engineering focuses on heat transport modulation on atomic-scale. Different from reported methods, it is shown that electric field can also modulate heat transport in ferroe…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 77 cited

Theory of Ion Aggregation and Gelation in Super-Concentrated Electrolytes

Michael McEldrew, Zachary A. H. Goodwin, Sheng Bi +2

In concentrated electrolytes with asymmetric or irregular ions, such as ionic liquids and solvent-in-salt electrolytes, ion association is more complicated than simple ion-pairing.…

physics.app-ph2020★ 97 cited

Adding salt to expand voltage window of humid ionic liquids

Ming Chen, Jiedu Wu, Ting Ye +5

Humid hydrophobic ionic liquids, widely used as electrolytes, have narrowed electrochemical windows, because their water, absorbed on the electrode surface, gets involved in electr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 24 cited

Cross interface model for the thermal transport across interface between overlapped boron nitride nanoribbons

Wentao Feng, Xiaoxiang Yu, Yue Wang +4

The application of low-dimensional materials for heat dissipation requires a comprehensive understanding of the thermal transport at the cross interface, which widely exists in var…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 18 cited

Spontaneous shrinkage of droplet on wetting surface in phase-field model

Chunhua Zhang, Zhaoli Guo

Phase field theory is widely used to model multi-phase flows. A drop can shrink or grow spontaneously due to the redistribution of interface and bulk energies to minimize the syste…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 125 cited

Can we find steady-state solutions to multiscale rarefied gas flows within dozens of iterations?

Wei Su, Lianhua Zhu, Peng Wang +2

One of the central problems in the study of rarefied gas dynamics is to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation quickly. When the Knudsen number is large, i.e. the…

physics.app-ph2019★ 54 cited

Thermal Boundary Resistance Measurement and Analysis Across SiC/SiO2 Interface

Shichen Deng, Chengdi Xiao, Jiale Yuan +4

Silicon Carbide (SiC) is a typical material for third-generation semiconductor. The thermal boundary resistance (TBR) of 4H-SiC/SiO2 interface, was investigated by both experimenta…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 3 cited

A well-balanced gas kinetic scheme for Navier-Stokes equations with gravitational potential

Songze Chen, Zhaoli Guo, Kun Xu

The hydrostatic equilibrium state is the consequence of the exact hydrostatic balance between hydrostatic pressure and external force. Standard finite volume or finite difference s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 623 cited

Molecular understanding of charge storage and charging dynamics in supercapacitors with MOF electrodes and ionic liquid electrolytes

Sheng Bi, Ming Chen, Runxi Wang +4

We present a computational microscopy analysis (targeted molecular dynamics simulations) of the structure and performance of conductive metal organic framework (MOF) electrodes in…

physics.app-ph2018★ 4 cited

High efficient solar evaporation by airing multifunctional textile

Guilong Peng, Shichen Deng, Swellam W. Sharshir +3

Solar evaporation is important for many applications such as desalination, power generation and industrial drying. Recently, some studies on evaporation reported obtaining high ene…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 37 cited

Deformation characteristics of a single droplet driven by a piezoelectric nozzle of the drop-on-demand inkjet system

Shangkun Wang, Yonghong Zhong, Haisheng Fang

In the drop-on-demand (DOD) inkjet system, deformation process and the direct relations between the droplet motions and the liquid properties have been seldom investigated, althoug…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 95 cited

Unexpected Thermal Conductivity Enhancement in Pillared Graphene Nanoribbon with Isotopic Resonance

Dengke Ma, Xiao Wan, Nuo Yang

Thermal transport in nanoribbon based nanostructures is critical to advancing its applications. Wave effects of phonons can give rise to controllability of heat conduction in nanos…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 2 cited

Discrete unified gas kinetic scheme for multiscale heat transfer with arbitrary temperature difference

Chuang Zhang, Zhaoli Guo

In this paper, a finite-volume discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) based on the non-gray phonon transport model is developed for multiscale heat transfer problem with arbit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 37 cited

How Does van der Waals Confinement Enhance Phonon Transport?

Xiaoxiang Yu, Dengke Ma, Chengcheng Deng +6

The van der Waals (vdW) interactions exist in reality universally and play an important role in physics. Here, we show the study on the mechanism of vdW interactions on phonon tran…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 13 cited

GPU acceleration of an iterative scheme for gas-kinetic model equations with memory reduction techniques

Lianhua Zhu, Peng Wang, Songze Chen +2

This paper presents a Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) acceleration method of an iterative scheme for gas-kinetic model equations. Unlike the previous GPU parallelization of explic…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 14 cited

A Unified Stochastic Particle Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook Method for Multiscale Gas Flows

Fei Fei, Jun Zhang, Jing Li +1

The stochastic particle method based on Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) or ellipsoidal statistical BGK (ESBGK) model approximates the pairwise collisions in the Boltzmann equation usin…

physics.app-ph2018

Superior thermal conductivity of poly (ethylene oxide) for solid-state electrolytes: a molecular dynamics study

Han Meng, Xiaoxiang Yu, Hao Feng +2

Solid-state lithium-ion batteries (SSLIBs) are considered to be the new generation of devices for energy storage due to better performance and safety. Poly (ethylene oxide) (PEO) b…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 47 cited

A Boundary Thickening-based Direct Forcing Immersed Boundary Method for Fully Resolved Simulation of Particle-laden Flows

Maoqiang Jiang, Zhaohui Liu

A boundary thickening-based direct forcing (BTDF) immersed boundary (IB) method is proposed for fully resolved simulation of incompressible viscous flows laden with finite size par…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 34 cited

A high-order lattice Boltzmann model for the Cahn-Hilliard equation

Chunhua Zhang, Zhaoli Guo, Hong Liang

In this paper, a lattice Boltzmann model with the single-relaxation-time model for the Cahn-Hilliard equation (CHE) is proposed. The discrete source term is redesigned through a th…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 1 cited

An implicit kinetic scheme for multiscale heat transfer problem accounting for phonon dispersion and polarization

Chuang Zhang, Songze Chen, Zhaoli Guo

An efficient implicit kinetic scheme is developed to solve the stationary phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) based on the non-gray model including the phonon dispersion and…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 108 cited

Kinetics of Ion Transport in Ionic Liquids: Two Dynamical Diffusion States

Guang Feng, Ming Chen, Sheng Bi +4

Using classical molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the mobility of ions in [Bmim][TFSI], a typical room temperature ionic liquid. Analyzing the trajectories of individu…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 54 cited

A discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme for immiscible two-phase flows

Chunhua Zhang, Kang Yang, Zhaoli Guo

In this work, we extend the discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) [Guo et al., Phys. Rev. E 88, 033305 (2013)] to continue two-phase flows. In the framework of DUGKS, two kin…