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Original Paper

The effect of shock wave compression on double wall carbon nanotubes

  1. Mattias Mases1,
  2. Vladimir V. Milyavskiy2,
  3. Jeremy Waldbock3,
  4. Manuel Dossot3,
  5. Xavier Devaux4,
  6. Edward McRae5,
  7. Alexander V. Soldatov1,6,*

Article first published online: 30 OCT 2012

DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201200115

Issue

physica status solidi (b)

physica status solidi (b)

Volume 249, Issue 12, pages 2378–2381, December 2012

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How to Cite

Mases, M., Milyavskiy, V. V., Waldbock, J., Dossot, M., Devaux, X., McRae, E. and Soldatov, A. V. (2012), The effect of shock wave compression on double wall carbon nanotubes. Phys. Status Solidi B, 249: 2378–2381. doi: 10.1002/pssb.201200115

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden

  2. 2

    Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS, Moscow, Russia

  3. 3

    Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Microbiologie pour l'Environnement, UMR 7564, CNRS–Université de Lorraine, 54602 Villers les-Nancy, France

  4. 4

    Insitut Jean Lamour, Department P2M, UMR 7198 CNRS–Université de Lorraine, Ecole des Mines, 54042 Nancy, France

  5. 5

    Insitut Jean Lamour, Department CP2S, UMR 7198, CNRS–Université de Lorraine, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

  6. 6

    Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

*Phone: +46 920 493436, Fax: +46 920 49 1074

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 4 DEC 2012
  2. Article first published online: 30 OCT 2012
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 14 SEP 2012
  4. Manuscript Revised: 3 AUG 2012
  5. Manuscript Received: 30 APR 2012

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Keywords:

  • carbon nanotubes;
  • high pressure;
  • shock wave;
  • structural stability

Abstract

Double wall carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) have proven to have a very good structural stability when exposed to high static pressures. We report here on the study of DWCNTs after application of shock wave (dynamic) compression up to 36 GPa in a recovery assembly. TEM images of so-treated samples reveal a threshold between 19 and 26 GPa of shock wave compression above which significant structural damage is induced whereas only minor damage can be detected below. The threshold detected with TEM coincides well with the collapse pressure of DWCNTs previously reported [You et al., High Press. Res. 31, 186 (2011); Aguiar et al., Phys. Chem. C 115, 5378 (2011)]. Raman data demonstrate a gradual accumulation of structural defects via an increase in D-band to G-band intensity ratio (ID/IG-ratio) from ∼0.2 to ∼0.8 in going from the source CNT material to the nanotubes after compression to 36 GPa. Despite severe damage; the DWCNTs exposed to 36 GPa of shock wave compression survived which is evidenced by Raman spectra. The DWCNTs demonstrate a higher susceptibility to structural damage under dynamic than static pressure.

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