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A practical dimensionless equation for the thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes and CNT arrays

Author(s) -

Qiang Chen,

Yonghua Huang

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

aip advances

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421

H-Index - 58

ISSN - 2158-3226

DOI - 10.1063/1.4878795

Subject(s) - thermal conductivity , carbon nanotube , dimensionless quantity , materials science , conductivity , bundle , consistency (knowledge bases) , divergence (linguistics) , thermodynamics , nanotechnology , physics , composite material , mathematics , geometry , linguistics , philosophy , quantum mechanics

Experimental results reported in the last decade on the thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have shown a fairly divergent behavior. An underlying intrinsic consistency was believed to exist in spite of the divergence in the thermal conductivity data of various CNTs. A dimenisonless equation that describes the temperature dependence of thermal conductivity was derived by introducing reduced forms relative to a chosen reference point. This equation can serve as a practical approximation to characterize the conductivity of individual CNT with different structural parameters as well as bulk CNT arrays with different bundle configurations. Comparison of predictions by the equation and historical measurements showed good agreements within their uncertainties

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