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Nanoscale PAPER Thermal transport in bent graphene nanoribbons Cite this: Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 734 Jingchao Zhang and Xinwei Wang* This work reports on a study of the phonon behavior and thermal transport in bent graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). Three peculiar phenomena are observed in bent GNRs during thermal transport. First, due to the high thermal conductivity of flexural mode (ZM) phonons in GNRs, energy separation is observed between the in-plane and out-of-plane phonon modes after a steady state heat flux is imposed on the system. Such energy separation can hold for about 50 nm from the heating region. Second, a thermal resistance is observed in the bending region of a 90 bent GNR system. This phenomenon is explained by the Received 22nd July 2012 phonon energy scattering/reflection and the compressive strain in the bending structure. Different Accepted 15th November 2012 bending angles are investigated and it is proved that the bending resistance decreases with increasing DOI: 10.1039/c2nr31966g bending angle. Finally, upon crossing the bending structure in GNRs, phonon packages preserve their /nanoscale vibrating mode instead of vibrating directions. 1 Introduction correction is of great importance in the numerical calculations of GNRs thermal conductivity.17 Aer applying quantum Graphene is a monatomic layer of carbon atoms that exhibits correction to MD t