251. Thermal property tuning in aligned carbon nanotube films and random entangled carbon nanotube films by ion irradiation.
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Jing Wang, Di Chen, Bykova, Julia S., Zakhidov, Anvar A., Xuemei Wang, and Lin Shao
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THERMAL properties , *CARBON nanotubes , *NANOFILMS , *THERMAL conductivity , *IRRADIATION - Abstract
Ion irradiation effects on thermal property changes are compared between aligned carbon nanotube (A-CNT) films and randomly entangled carbon nanotube (R-CNT) films. After H, C, and Fe ion irradiation, a focusing ion beam with sub-mm diameter is used as a heating source, and an infrared signal is recorded to extract thermal conductivity. Ion irradiation decreases thermal conductivity of A-CNT films, but increases that of R-CNT films. We explain the opposite trends by the fact that neighboring CNT bundles are loosely bonded in A-CNT films, which makes it difficult to create inter-tube linkage/bonding upon ion irradiation. In a comparison, in R-CNT films, which have dense tube networking, carbon displacements are easily trapped between touching tubes and act as intertube linkage to promote off-axial phonon transport. The enhancement overcomes the phonon transport loss due to phonon-defect scattering along the axial direction. A model is established to explain the dependence of thermal conductivity changes on ion irradiation parameters including ion species, energies, and current. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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