One-directional thermal transport in densely aligned single-wall carbon nanotube films
Abstract
Individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess extremely high thermal conductivities. However, the thermal conductivities and their anisotropy of macroscopic assemblies of CNTs have so far remained small. Here, we report the results of directional thermal transport measurements on a nearly perfectly aligned CNT film fabricated via controlled vacuum filtration. We found the thermal conductivity to be 43 ± 2.2 W m-1 K-1 with a record-high thermal anisotropy of 500. From the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity and its agreement with the atomistic phonon transport calculation, we conclude that the effect of intertube thermal resistance on heat conduction in the alignment direction is negligible because of the large contact area between CNTs. These observations thus represent ideal unidirectional thermal transport, i.e., the thermal conductivity of the film is determined solely by that of individual CNTs.
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- The University of Tokyo, Japan (Asia). Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Rice University, Houston, Texas (United States). Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Rice University, Houston, Texas (United States). Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Rice University, Houston, Texas (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy; Rice University, Houston, Texas (United States). Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering,
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- Research Org.:
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1800377
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1575949
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-06ER46308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 115; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; Physics; Intermolecular forces; Phonons; Thermal transport; Nanotubes; Vacuum filtration; Thermal conductivity; Computer simulation; Scanning electron microscopy
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Yamaguchi, Shingi, Tsunekawa, Issei, Komatsu, Natsumi, Gao, Weilu, Shiga, Takuma, Kodama, Takashi, Kono, Junichiro, and Shiomi, Junichiro. One-directional thermal transport in densely aligned single-wall carbon nanotube films. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5127209.
Yamaguchi, Shingi, Tsunekawa, Issei, Komatsu, Natsumi, Gao, Weilu, Shiga, Takuma, Kodama, Takashi, Kono, Junichiro, & Shiomi, Junichiro. One-directional thermal transport in densely aligned single-wall carbon nanotube films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5127209
Yamaguchi, Shingi, Tsunekawa, Issei, Komatsu, Natsumi, Gao, Weilu, Shiga, Takuma, Kodama, Takashi, Kono, Junichiro, and Shiomi, Junichiro. Mon .
"One-directional thermal transport in densely aligned single-wall carbon nanotube films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5127209. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1800377.
@article{osti_1800377,
title = {One-directional thermal transport in densely aligned single-wall carbon nanotube films},
author = {Yamaguchi, Shingi and Tsunekawa, Issei and Komatsu, Natsumi and Gao, Weilu and Shiga, Takuma and Kodama, Takashi and Kono, Junichiro and Shiomi, Junichiro},
abstractNote = {Individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess extremely high thermal conductivities. However, the thermal conductivities and their anisotropy of macroscopic assemblies of CNTs have so far remained small. Here, we report the results of directional thermal transport measurements on a nearly perfectly aligned CNT film fabricated via controlled vacuum filtration. We found the thermal conductivity to be 43 ± 2.2 W m-1 K-1 with a record-high thermal anisotropy of 500. From the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity and its agreement with the atomistic phonon transport calculation, we conclude that the effect of intertube thermal resistance on heat conduction in the alignment direction is negligible because of the large contact area between CNTs. These observations thus represent ideal unidirectional thermal transport, i.e., the thermal conductivity of the film is determined solely by that of individual CNTs.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5127209},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 22,
volume = 115,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 25 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Mon Nov 25 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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