Absence of an ideal single-walled carbon nanotube forest structure for thermal and electrical conductivities

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 10218-10224

  Chen, Guohai ^a,b   Futaba, Don N ^a,b   Kimura, Hiroe ^a,b   Sakurai, Shunsuke ^a,b   Yumura, Motoo ^a,b   Hata, Kenji ^a,b,c  

^a Technology Research Association for Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes TASC   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

crystallinity; diameter; electrical conductance; single walled carbon nanotube; SWCNT forest; thermal diffusivity

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS CONTROL; CRYSTALLINITIES; DIAMETER; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; SWCNT FOREST; SYNTHETIC TECHNOLOGY; THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DEFECTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY;

FORESTRY;

CARBON FIBERS; CONDUCTIVITY; CRYSTALLINITY; DEPOSITION; FORESTS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY;

EID: 84888883052     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404504f     Document Type: Article

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