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Thermal Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes by Photothermal Techniques

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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are multifunctional materials commonly used in a large number of applications in electronics, sensors, nanocomposites, thermal management, actuators, energy storage and conversion, and drug delivery. Despite recent important advances in the development of CNT purity assessment tools and atomic resolution imaging of individual nanotubes by scanning tunnelling microscopy and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, the macroscale assessment of the overall surface qualities of commercial CNT materials remains a great challenge. The lack of quantitative measurement technology to characterize and compare the surface qualities of bulk manufactured and engineered CNT materials has negative impacts on the reliable and consistent nanomanufacturing of CNT products. In this paper it is shown how photoacoustic spectroscopy and photothermal radiometry represent useful non-destructive tools to study the optothermal properties of carbon nanotube thin films.

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This work has been performed in the framework of the “FISEDA” program granted by the Italian Ministry of Defence.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze di Base ed Applicate per l’Ingegneria, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via A.Scarpa 16, 00161, Roma, Italy

    G. Leahu, R. Li Voti, M. C. Larciprete, C. Sibilia & M. Bertolotti

  2. School of Electrical Engineering, SMARAD Center of Excellence, Aalto University, P.O. Box 13000, 00076, Aalto, Finland

    I. Nefedov & I. V. Anoshkin

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Leahu, G., Li Voti, R., Larciprete, M.C. et al. Thermal Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes by Photothermal Techniques. Int J Thermophys 36, 1349–1357 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-014-1804-0

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