Abstract
The experimental observation of carbon nanotubes by Sumio Iijima in 1991 [1], sparked a significant effort in theoretical and experimental investigation of carbon nanotubes and related structures. The studies of thermal properties, although very important from fundamental and applications points of view, have received less attention in comparison with other aspects such as the electrical and mechanical properties [2–18]. This might be due to the fact that one associates the nanoscale aspect of nanotubes with quantization of transport properties which applies to electrons at room temperature. On the other hand, thermal transport involves many phonon modes and these can form a continuum at room temperature and phonon quantization manifests itself in nanotubes at very low temperatures (less than 8 K) [5]. Carbon nanotubes can be viewed as rolled-up graphene sheets and therefore one can infer their thermal properties by comparing them with graphite. Graphite has a large in-plane thermal conductivity, second only to type II diamond, and significantly lower out-of-plane thermal conductivity [19,20]. Therefore, in carbon nanotubes or nanotube ropes, one can expect very high thermal conductivity along the tube axis compared to the radial component due to the large separation between the different layers in multiwall nanotubes [22,13].
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Osman, M.A., Cummings, A.W., Srivastava, D. (2007). Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanotubes. In: Mansoori, G.A., George, T.F., Assoufid, L., Zhang, G. (eds) Molecular Building Blocks for Nanotechnology. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 109. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39938-6_8
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