%0 Journal Article
%T On the Thermal Conductivity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Ropes
%A Poonam Silotia
%A Seema Dabas
%A Aditya Saxena
%A Shri-Prakash Tewari
%J Soft Nanoscience Letters
%P 7-10
%@ 2160-0740
%D 2013
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/snl.2013.31002
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		<span>Recently measured thermal conductivity in single-walled carbon nanotube ropes in the temperature range 8</span><span> - </span><span>350</span><span> </span><span>K has been explained using an anisotropic dynamical model which not only takes into account the quasi two-dimensional nature of the folded graphene sheets that forms the nanotubes, but also the intertube coupling, in addition to the phonon frequency and dimensionality dependent relaxation time of phonon-phonon scattering and interaction.</span><span></span> 
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%K Thermal Conductivity
%K Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Ropes
%K Phonon-Phonon Scattering and Interaction
%K Dynamical Model
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=26379