Abstract

The electrical transport properties of individual disordered multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), synthesized with the floating catalyst method, have been investigated. The resistivity of such disordered MWCNTs shows T1∕2 dependence over a temperature range of 4.2–263K. The experimental finding can be interpreted in terms of Al’tshuler-Aronov model [Solid State Commun. 30, 115 (1979); Sov. Phys. JETP 50, 968 (1979); Pis’ma. Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 27, 700 (1978)], in which strong electron-electron interaction leads to a Coulomb gap in the density of electronic states at the Fermi level. Such a wide fitting range of temperature for T1∕2 dependence has never been reported for other materials, implying an extremely short carrier scattering time of the order of femtoseconds.

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