A specific heat anomaly in multiwall carbon nanotubes as a possible sign of orientational order-disorder transition

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 525-530

  Jorge, G A ^a   Bekeris, V ^a   Escobar, M M ^a   Goyanes, S ^a   Zilli, D ^a   Cukierman, A L ^a   Candal, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; YARN;

ADSORBED GAS; CHARACTERISTIC TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; MULTIWALL NANOTUBES; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERINGS; OUTER DIAMETERS; THERMAL HYSTERESIS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 70449534790     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.09.073     Document Type: Article

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