4.8 Article

Thermal Conductivity of Freestanding Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Sheet by Raman Spectroscopy

Journal

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 6, Issue 22, Pages 19958-19965

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am505484z

Keywords

single wall carbon nanotube; Raman spectroscopy; phonon; thermal conductivity; chemical vapor deposition; MD simulation

Funding

  1. DOE [DE-FG02-R46526]
  2. NSF [EPS-01002410]
  3. Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts of China
  4. Shanghai University

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Thermal properties of single wall carbon nanotube sheets (SWCNT-sheets) are of significant importance in the area of thermal management, as an isolated SWCNT possesses high thermal conductivity of the value about 3000 W m(-1) K-1. Here we report an indirect method of estimating the thermal conductivity of a nanometer thick suspended SWCNT-sheet by employing the Raman scattering technique. Tube diameter size is examined by the transmissions electron microscopy study. The Raman analysis of the radial breathing modes predicts narrow diameter size distribution with achiral (armchair) symmetry of the constituent SWCNTs. From the first order temperature coefficient of the A1g mode of the G band along with the laser power dependent frequency shifting of this mode, the thermal conductivity of the suspended SWCNT-sheet is estimated to be about similar to 18.3 W m(-1) K-1. Our theoretical study shows that the thermal conductivity of the SWCNT-sheet has contributions simultaneously from the intratube and intertube thermal transport. The intertube thermal conductivity (with contributions from the van der Waals interaction) is merely around 0.7 W m(-1) K-1, which is three orders smaller than the intratube thermal conductivity, leading to an abrupt decrease in the thermal conductivity of the SWCNT-sheet as compared to the reported value for isolated SWCNT.

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