Thermal transport measurements of individual multiwalled nanotubes.

By Philip Kim, L. Shi, Arun Majumdar, Paul L. McEuen. Physical Review Letters, 2001

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The thermal conductivity and thermoelectric power of a single carbon nanotube were measured using a microfabricated suspended device. The observed thermal conductivity is more than 3000 W/K m at room temperature, which is 2 orders of magnitude higher than the estimation from previous experiments that used macroscopic mat samples. The temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity of nanotubes exhibits a peak at 320 K due to the onset of umklapp phonon scattering. The measured thermoelectric power shows linear temperature dependence with a value of 80 microV/K at room temperature.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry

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