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Cheick Oumar Diarra1, Carlo Massobrio1, Evelyne Martin1
1CNRS, Laboratoire ICube, Université de Strasbourg, UMR 7357, F-67037 Strasbourg, France. evelyne.martin@cnrs.fr.
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Heat transport in a crystalline polymer, poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), is studied using molecular dynamics. The potential energy is described by density functional theory (DFT) with an additional correction to account for van der Waals dispersion forces. The approach-to-equilibrium molecular dynamics (AEMD) method is used to create and analyse thermal transients and target transport along or between polymer chains. As expected, the approach leads to a length-dependent thermal conductivity of the system along the covalent polymer backbone. Less expectedly, we observe heat transfer between two polymers, i.e. along a non-covalent heat path, and quantify this transfer using a thermal conductance.
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