Assoc. Prof. Dr. Traian Dumitrică
Technology & Science
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Jan 2019
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Apr 2019
Fellow
Jun 2018
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Aug 2018
Fellow
Jul 2017
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Dec 2017
Fellow
Projects & Publications
SCC-DFTB Objective Molecular Dynamics Investigations of ZnO Nano-Materials Targeting Thermoelectricity and Energy Conversion Applications
| Jul 2017
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Apr 2019
Cooperation partner
Prof. Dr. Thomas Frauenheim, Universität Bremen
Publications
Hu, C., Huang, J., Sumpter, B., Meletis, E., and Dumitrica, T. (2017). Ab Initio Predictions of Hexagonal Zr(B,C,N) Polymorphs for Coherent Interface Design. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 46, 121, 26007-26018. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b09444#
Dumitrica, T., Al-Ghalith, J., and Xu, H. (2017). Collapsed carbon nanotubes as building blocks for high-performance thermal materials. Physical Review Materials, 5, 1. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.056001
Xu, H., Drozdov, G., Hourahine, B., Gyu Par, J., Sewat, R., Frauenheim, Th., and Dumitrică, T. (2019). Collapsed carbon nanotubes: From nano to mesoscale via density functional theory-based tight-binding objective molecular modeling. Carbon, 143, 786-792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.11.068
Grigorii, D., Xu, H., Frauenheim, Th., and Dumitrică, T. (2019). Densely-packed bundles of collapsed carbon nanotubes: Atomistic and mesoscopic distinct element method modeling. Carbon, 152, 198-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2019.05.036
Wang, Y., Xu, H., Drozdov, G., and Dumitrică, T. (2018). Mesoscopic Friction and Network Morphology Control the Mechanics and Processing of Carbon Nanotube Yarns. Carbon, 139, 94–104.
Al-Ghalith, J., and Dumitrică, T. (2018). Nano-scale Heat Transfer in Nanostructures. Springer.
Hu, X, and Dumitrică, T. (2019). Role of Inter-tube Corrugation in the Dynamic Sliding Friction of Concentric Carbon Nanotubes: Implications for Nanomechanical Oscillator Devices. Extreme Mechanic Letters, 30, 100508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2019.100508