Date of download: 12/26/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Modeling the Thermal Conductivity and Phonon Transport in Nanoparticle Composites Using Monte Carlo Simulation J. Heat Transfer. 2008;130(4):042410-042410-11. doi:10.1115/1.2818765 Figure Legend: Comparison of the thermal conductivity of a periodically aligned nanocomposite with 50nm cubic silicon particles distributed in a germanium matrix and that of a random composite with silicon nanoparticles having a size range from 10nmto100nm distributed randomly in a germanium matrix as a function of germanium atomic composition.