Tomonaga–Luttinger-liquid behavior in single-walled carbon nanotube networks

✍ Scribed by Masashi Shiraishi; Masafumi Ata

• Book ID: 104166208
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 131 KB
• Volume: 127
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-1098
• DOI: 10.1016/s0038-1098(03)00417-4

✦ Synopsis

The electrical conduction behavior of single-walled carbon nanotube networks was investigated. Although the nanotubes were entangled with each other and multiple junctions were formed within the network, they showed an apparently strong Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid (TL-liquid) character, which seemed to be attributable to their quasi one-dimensional structures. The appearance of the TL-liquid behavior was induced by removing impurities in the junctions. This fact indicates that the TL-liquid can be observed in the entangled SWNTs after the purification.