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Interface thermal behavior in nanomaterials by thermal grating relaxation
Pier Luca Palla, Sonia Zampa, Evelyne Lampin +1
We study the relaxation of a thermal grating in multilayer materials with interface thermal resistances. The analytical development allows for the nu- merical determination of this…
Length dependence of thermal conductivity by approach-to-equilibrium molecular dynamics
Hayat Zaoui, Pier Luca Palla, Fabrizio Cleri +1
The length dependence of the thermal conductivity over more than two decades is systematically studied for a range of materials, interatomic potentials and temperatures, by the ato…
Generalized interface models for transport phenomena: unusual scale effects in composite nanomaterials
Fabio Pavanello, Fabio Manca, Pier Luca Palla +1
The effective transport properties of heterogeneous nanoscale materials and structures are affected by several geometrical and physical factors. Among them the presence of imperfec…
Theory and Monte Carlo simulations for the stretching of flexible and semi-flexible single polymer chains under external fields
Fabio Manca, Stefano Giordano, Pier Luca Palla +2
Recent developments of microscopic mechanical experiments allow the manipulation of individual polymer molecules in two main ways: \textit{uniform} stretching by external forces an…
Theory of single-molecule experiments in the overstretching force regime
Fabio Manca, Stefano Giordano, Pier Luca Palla +2
We present a statistical mechanics analysis of the finite-size elasticity of biopolymers, consisting of domains which can exhibit transitions between more than one stable state at…
Elastic properties of hydrogenated graphene
Emiliano Cadelano, Pier Luca Palla, Stefano Giordano +1
There exist three conformers of hydrogenated graphene, referred to as chair-, boat-, or washboard-graphane. These systems have a perfect two-dimensional periodicity mapped onto the…