The problem of electrical transport at the molecular scale in strongly interconnected with heat transfer and thermal management. In this lecture, we will introduce the basic equations governing charge and phonon transport through molecular junctions and generalize these results to the case of larger pure carbon nanostructures. Main observables in these systems are allowing us to infer on their thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, and its dependence of structural or electronic disorder and atomistic dynamics.
The problem of electrical transport at the molecular scale in strongly interconnected with heat transfer and thermal management. In this lecture, we will introduce the basic equations governing charge and phonon transport through molecular junctions and generalize these results to the case of larger pure carbon nanostructures. Main observables in these systems are allowing us to infer on their thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, and its dependence of structural or electronic disorder and atomistic dynamics.