Thermal conductivity of orientationally-disordered crystals under high pressure

• The transient hot-wire method was used to study the effects of temperature and pressure on the thermal conductivity, λ, of several molecular substances showing varying degrees of disorder in molecular orientation. Molecular solids both in the plastic and normal crystal state were investigated as well as a clathrate hydrate. The measurements were made in the temperature range 100 - 450 K and at pressures up to 2.5 GPa. The conductivity results for the different types of crystal studied are discussed in terms of the simple Debye formula. We discuss the unusual glass-like behaviour of λ(T) for the clathrate hydrate in some detail.

Subject headings

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

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

Keyword

Thermal conductivity

orientational disorder

plastic crystal

molecular crystal

cllathrate hydrate

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