Low-temperature radial thermal expansion of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles saturated with nitrogen

• The effect of a N2 impurity on the radial thermal expansion coefficient αr of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles has been investigated in the temperature interval 2.2–43 K by the dilatometric method. Saturation of nanotube bundles with N2 caused a sharp increase in the positive magnitudes of αr in the whole temperature range used and a very high and wide maximum in the thermal expansion coefficient αr(T) at T ~ 28 K. The low temperature desorption of the impurity from the N2-saturated powder of bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes with open and closed ends has been investigated.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)

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Single-walled carbon nanotubes

SWCNT

thermal expansion

radial thermal expansion

nitrogen impurities

nitrogen sorption

Condensed matter physics

Kondenserade materiens fysik

fysik

Physics

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