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Iodine doped carbon nanotube cables exceeding specific electrical conductivity of metals.

ABSTRACT: Creating highly electrically conducting cables from macroscopic aggregates of carbon nanotubes, to replace metallic wires, is still a dream. Here we report the fabrication of iodine-doped, double-walled nanotube cables having electrical resistivity reaching ?10????.m. Due to the low density, their specific conductivity (conductivity/weight) is higher than copper and aluminum and is only just below that of the highest specific conductivity metal, sodium. The cables exhibit high current-carrying capacity of 10??10??A/cm² and can be joined together into arbitrary length and diameter, without degradation of their electrical properties. The application of such nanotube cables is demonstrated by partly replacing metal wires in a household light bulb circuit. The conductivity variation as a function of temperature for the cables is five times smaller than that for copper. The high conductivity nanotube cables could find a range of applications, from low dimensional interconnects to transmission lines.

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3216570 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Iodine doped carbon nanotube cables exceeding specific electrical conductivity of metals.

Zhao Yao Y   Wei Jinquan J   Vajtai Robert R   Ajayan Pulickel M PM   Barrera Enrique V EV  

Scientific reports 20110906

Creating highly electrically conducting cables from macroscopic aggregates of carbon nanotubes, to replace metallic wires, is still a dream. Here we report the fabrication of iodine-doped, double-walled nanotube cables having electrical resistivity reaching ∼10⁻⁷ Ω.m. Due to the low density, their specific conductivity (conductivity/weight) is higher than copper and aluminum and is only just below that of the highest specific conductivity metal, sodium. The cables exhibit high current-carrying c  ...[more]

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