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Electrical and elastic properties of an array of carbon nanotubes after irradiation by high-energy electrons

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The effect of the irradiation of arrays of annealed and unannealed multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by electrons with an energy of 21 MeV and a dose of 2.2 × 1017 el/cm2 on their electrical conductivity, thermal electromotive force, and elasticity coefficient is studied. It is established that the irradiation of annealed nanotubes considerably decreases (by nearly a factor of two) their electrical conductivity and coefficient of elasticity in the material pressing direction and increases their thermal electromotive force by nearly 1.5 times. The effect of the same dose of electron irradiation on an array of unannealed CNTs also leads to an appreciable decrease in its coefficient of elasticity, but favors a considerable increase in the electrical conductivity and thermal electromotive force of the material. The observed effects are discussed in relation to the specifics of the formation of radiation defects in CNTs and their interaction with primary defects in unannealed specimens.

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  1. Kurdyumov Institute of Metal Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, bul’v. Akademika Vernadskogo 36, Kyiv, 03680, Ukraine

    V. V. Anikeev, B. V. Koval’chuk, G. Yu. Mikhailova, M. M. Nishchenko, I. M. Sidorchenko & Yu. F. Suskaya

  2. Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 49, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    V. M. Lazorenko, V. N. Pimenov & V. I. Tovtin

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Anikeev, B.V. Koval’chuk, V.M. Lazorenko, G.Yu. Mikhailova, M.M. Nishchenko, V.N. Pimenov, I.M. Sidorchenko, Yu.F. Suskaya, V.I. Tovtin, 2013, published in Perspektivnye Materialy, 2013, No. 11, pp. 22–28.

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Anikeev, V.V., Koval’chuk, B.V., Lazorenko, V.M. et al. Electrical and elastic properties of an array of carbon nanotubes after irradiation by high-energy electrons. Inorg. Mater. Appl. Res. 5, 138–142 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075113314020051

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