Посилання:The low-temperature radial thermal expansion of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles saturated with nitrogen / A.V. Dolbin, V.B. Esel'son, V.G. Gavrilko, V.G. Manzhelii, S.N. Popov, N.A. Vinnikov, B. Sundqvist // Физика низких температур. — 2010. — Т. 36, № 5. — С. 465-469. — Бібліогр.: 21 назв. — англ.
Підтримка:The authors are indebted to Prof. V.M. Loktev for fruitful discussions and to the Science & Technology Center of Ukraine (STCU) for the financial support of the study (Project # 4266).
The effect of a N₂ impurity on the radial thermal expansion coefficient αr of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles has been investigated in the temperature interval 2.2–43K by the dilatometric method. Saturation of nanotube bundles with N₂ caused a sharp increase in the positive magnitudes of αr in the whole temperature range used and a very high and wide maximum in the thermal expansion coefficient αr(T) at T~28 K. The lowtemperature desorption of the impurity from the N₂-saturated powder of bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes with open and closed ends has been investigated.