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- Dolbin, Alexander V., et al.
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Thermal expansion of solutions of deuteromethane in fullerite C60 at low temperature : Isotopic effect
- 2009
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Ingår i: Low temperature physics (Woodbury, N.Y., Print). - : American Institute of Physics. - 1063-777X .- 1090-6517. ; 35:3, s. 226-231
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The thermal expansion of CD4 solutions in the orientational glass C60 with molar concentration of deuteromethane 20 and 50% has been investigated in the temperature range 2.5–23 K. The orientational glass CD4–C60 undergoes a first-order phase transition in the temperature interval 4.5–55 K. This transition is manifested as hysteresis of the linear thermal expansion coefficient alpha as well as maxima in the temperature dependences alpha(T) and tau1(T), where tau1 is the characteristic thermalization time of the experimental samples. The characteristic re-orientation times of the C60 molecules and the characteristic phase transformations occurring in the experimental solutions are determined. The results of the present study are compared with the results of a similar study of the solution CH4–C60. It is concluded that tunneling rotation of the CH4 and CD4 molecules occupying interstitial positions in the fullerite C60 lattice occurs.
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- Dolbin, Alexander V., et al.
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Radial thermal expansion of pure and Xe-saturated bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes at low temperatures
- 2009
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Ingår i: Low temperature physics (Woodbury, N.Y., Print). - : AIP Publishing. - 1063-777X .- 1090-6517. ; 35:6, s. 484-490
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The radial thermal expansion coefficient alphar of pure and Xe-saturated bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is measured in the interval 2.2–120 K. The coefficient is positive above T=5.5 K and negative at lower temperatures. The experiment was done using a low-temperature capacitance dilatometer with a sensitivity of 2×10−9 cm, and the sample was prepared by compacting a CNT powder in such a way that the pressure applied oriented the nanotube axes perpendicular to the axis of the cylindrical sample. The data show that individual nanotubes have a negative thermal expansion, while the solid compacted material has a positive expansion coefficient due to expansion of the intertube volume in the bundles. Doping the nanotubes with Xe caused a sharp increase in the magnitude of alphar in the whole range of temperatures used and gave rise to a peak in the dependence alphar(T) in the interval 50–65 K. A subsequent decrease in the Xe concentration lowered the peak considerably but had little effect on the thermal expansion coefficient of the sample outside the region of the peak. The features revealed are explained qualitatively.
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- Dolbin, Alexander V., et al.
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The effect of sorbed hydrogen on low-temperature radial thermal expansion of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles
- 2009
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Ingår i: Low temperature physics (Woodbury, N.Y., Print). - : AIP Publishing. - 1063-777X .- 1090-6517. ; 35:12, s. 939-943
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The effect of a normal H2 impurity upon the radial thermal expansion ar of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) bundles has been investigated in the interval T = 2.2–27 K using the dilatometric method. It is found that H2 saturation of SWNT bundles causes a shift of the temperature interval of the negative thermal expansion towards lower (as compared to pure carbon nanotubes) temperatures and a sharp increase in the magnitude of ar in the whole range of temperatures investigated. The low temperature desorption of H2 from a powder consisting of bundles of SWNTs, open and closed at the ends, has been investigated.
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