Graphene Helicoid: Distinct Properties Promote Application of Graphene Related Materials in Thermal Management

The extremely high thermal conductivity of graphene has received great attention both in experiments and calculations. Obviously, new features in thermal properties are of primary importance for application of graphene-based materials in thermal management in nanoscale. Here, we studied the thermal conductivity of graphene helicoid, a newly reported graphene-related nanostructure, using molecular dynamics simulation. Interestingly, in contrast to the converged cross-plane thermal conductivity in multilayer graphene, axial thermal conductivity of graphene helicoid keeps increasing with thickness with a power law scaling relationship, which is a consequence of the divergent in-plane thermal conductivity of two-dimensional graphene. Moreover, the large overlap between adjacent layers in graphene helicoid also promotes higher thermal conductivity than multilayer graphene. Furthermore, in the small strain regime (<10%), compressive strain can effectively increase the thermal conductivity of graphene helicoid, ...