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The effect of O2 impurities on the low temperature radial thermal expansion of bundles of closed single-walled carbon nanotubes
The effect of oxygen impurities upon the radial thermal expansion (ar) of
bundles of closed single-walled carbon nanotubes has been investigated in the
temperature interval 2.2-48 K by the dilatometric method. Saturation of bundles
of nanotubes with oxygen caused an increase in the positive ar-values in the
whole interval of temperatures used. Also, several peaks appeared in the
temperature dependence ar(T) above 20 K. The low temperature desorption of
oxygen from powders consisting of bundles of single-walled nanotubes with open
and closed ends has been investigatedComment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Quantum effects in the radial thermal expansion of bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes doped with 4He
The radial thermal expansion (ar) of bundles of single-walled carbon
nanotubes saturated with 4He impurities to the molar concentration 9.4% has
been investigated in the interval 2.5-9.5 K using the dilatometric method. In
the interval 2.1-3.7 K (ar) is negative and is several times higher than the
negative (ar) for pure nanotube bundles. This most likely points to 4He atom
tunneling between different positions in the nanotube bundle system. The excess
expansion was reduced with decreasing 4He concentration.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, will be published in Fiz.Nizk Temp. #7, 201
The heat capacity of nitrogen chains in grooves of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles
The heat capacity of bundles of closed-cap single-walled carbon nanotubes
(SWNT) with one-dimensional chains of nitrogen molecules adsorbed in the
grooves has been first experimentally studied at temperatures from 2K to 40K
using an adiabatic calorimeter. The contribution of nitrogen C(T) to the total
heat capacity has been separated. In the region 2-8K the behaviour of the curve
C(T) is qualitatively similar to the theoretical prediction of the phonon heat
capacity of 1D chains of krypton (Kr) atoms localized in the grooves of SWNT
bundles. Below 3K the dependence C(T) is linear. Above 8K the dependence C(T)
becomes steeper in comparison with the case of Kr atoms. This behaviour of the
heat capacity C(T) is due to the contribution of the rotational degrees of
freedom of the nitrogen molecules.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
The effect of the noncentral impurity-matrix interaction upon the thermal expansion and polyamorphism of solid CO-C60 solutions at low temperatures
Orientational glasses with CO molecules occupying 26% and 90% of the
octahedral interstitial sites in the C60 lattice have been investigated by the
dilatometric method in a temperature interval of 2.5 - 23 K. At temperatures 4
- 6 K the glasses undergo a first-order phase transition which is evident from
the hysteresis of the thermal expansion and the maxima in the temperature
dependences of the linear thermal expansion coefficients, and the
thermalization times of the samples. The effect of the noncentral CO-C60
interaction upon the thermal expansion and the phase transition in these
glasses was clarified by comparing the behavior of the properties of the CO-C60
and N2-C60 solutions.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
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