Carbon nanostructures as an example of the self-organized criticality

The mechanism of self-organized criticality in the region of the nano- and microsizes has been studied experimentally using carbon multiwalled nanotubes and powder polycrystalline graphite as examples. A classical experiment on the formation of samples in the form of “sand heaps” has been described....

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Published inPhysics of the solid state Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 642 - 646
Main Authors Prikhod’ko, A. V., Kon’kov, O. I.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica 01.03.2012
Springer
Subjects
Atomic Clusters
Electric properties
Laws, regulations and rules
Nanotubes
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Powders
Solid State Physics
Self Organize Criticality
Voltage Characteristic
Critical Angle
Graphite Sample
Catalytic Pyrolysis
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Summary:The mechanism of self-organized criticality in the region of the nano- and microsizes has been studied experimentally using carbon multiwalled nanotubes and powder polycrystalline graphite as examples. A classical experiment on the formation of samples in the form of “sand heaps” has been described. The specific features of the experiment are the measurement of the electrical resistance of lateral layers at fixed tilt angles of the surface, on which the sample is formed, and the performance of the experiment in the pre-breakdown region of voltages. The observation of the power law for the dependence of the electrical resistance of the samples under study on the number of material portions has demonstrated the manifestation of the mechanism of the self-organized criticality.
ISSN:1063-7834
1090-6460
DOI:10.1134/S1063783412030262