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The low-temperature specific heat of MWCNTs
- Source :
- Low Temperature Physics. 45:347-354
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2019.
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Abstract
- The specific heat of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with a low defectiveness and with a low content of inorganic impurities has been measured in the temperature range from 1.8 to 275 K by the thermal relaxation method. The elemental composition and morphology of the MWCNTs were determined using scanning electron microscopy analysis and energy dispersion x-ray spectroscopy. The MWCNTs were prepared by chemical catalytic vapor deposition and have mean diameters from 7 nm up to 18 nm and lengths in some tens of microns. MWCNTs purity is over 99.4 at.%. The mass of the samples ranged from 2–4 mg. It was found that the temperature dependence of the specific heat of the MWCNTs differs significantly from other carbon materials (graphene, bundles of SWCNTs, graphite, diamond) at low temperatures. The specific heat of MWCNTs systematically decreases with increasing diameter of the tubes at low temperatures. The character of the temperature dependence of the specific heat of the MWCNTs with different diameters demonstrates the manifestation of different dimensions from 1D to 3D, depending on the temperature regions. The crossover temperatures are about 6 and 40 K. In the vicinity of these temperatures, a hysteresis is observed.
- Subjects :
- 010302 applied physics
Materials science
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Graphene
Scanning electron microscope
General Physics and Astronomy
Diamond
chemistry.chemical_element
Chemical vapor deposition
Carbon nanotube
Atmospheric temperature range
engineering.material
01 natural sciences
law.invention
chemistry
Chemical engineering
law
0103 physical sciences
engineering
Graphite
010306 general physics
Carbon
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10906517 and 1063777X
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Low Temperature Physics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........96b12929cd8d425766d20208ed0e081c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5090094