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Nature Materials 9, 423 - 429 (2010)
Published online: 7 March 2010 | doi:10.1038/nmat2714
Subject Categories: Electronic materials | Molecular electronics | Nanoscale materials
Chemically driven carbon-nanotube-guided thermopower waves
Wonjoon Choi1,2, Seunghyun Hong3, Joel T. Abrahamson1, Jae-Hee Han1, Changsik Song1, Nitish Nair1, Seunghyun Baik3 & Michael S. Strano1
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AbstractTheoretical calculations predict that by coupling an exothermic chemical reaction with a nanotube or nanowire possessing a high axial thermal conductivity, a self-propagating reactive wave can be driven along its length. Herein, such waves are realized using a 7-nm cyclotrimethylene trinitramine annular shell around a multiwalled carbon nanotube and are amplified by more than 104 times the bulk value, propagating faster than 2 m s−1, with an effective thermal conductivity of 1.28±0.2 kW m−1 K−1 at 2,860 K. This wave produces a concomitant electrical pulse of disproportionately high specific power, as large as 7 kW kg−1, which we identify as a thermopower wave. Thermally excited carriers flow in the direction of the propagating reaction with a specific power that scales inversely with system size. The reaction also evolves an anisotropic pressure wave of high total impulse per mass (300 N s kg−1). Such waves of high power density may find uses as unique energy sources.
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Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA
SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology, Department of Energy Science and School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Gyeonggi, 440-746, Korea
Correspondence to: Michael S. Strano1 e-mail: strano@mit.edu