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Electron-electron interaction in carbon nanostructures

Materials Science 2015-06-25 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The electron-electron interaction in carbon nanostructures was studied. A new method which allows to determine the electron-electron interaction constant λc\lambda_c from the analysis of quantum correction to the magnetic susceptibility and the magnetoresistance was developed. Three types of carbon materials: arc-produced multiwalled carbon nanotubes (arc-MWNTs), CVD-produced catalytic multiwalled carbon nanotubes (c-MWNTs) and pyrolytic carbon were used for investigation. We found that λc\lambda_c=0.2 for arc-MWNTs (before and after bromination treatment); λc\lambda_c = 0.1 for pyrolytic graphite; λc>\lambda_c > 0 for c-MWNTs. We conclude that the curvature of graphene layers in carbon nanostructures leads to the increase of the electron-electron interaction constant λc\lambda_c.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0608437,
  title  = {Electron-electron interaction in carbon nanostructures},
  author = {A. I. Romanenko and O. B. Anikeeva and T. I. Buryakov and E. N. Tkachev and A. V. Okotrub and V. L. Kuznetsov and A. N. Usoltseva and A. S. Kotosonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0608437},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, 18 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Electron Correlation in New Materials and Nanosystems, NATO Science Series II, Springer, 2006