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    Chang, C W; Okawa, D; Garcia, H; Majumdar, A; Zettl, A

    Physical review letters, 08/2008, Volume: 101, Issue: 7
    Journal Article

    We present experimental evidence that the room temperature thermal conductivity (kappa) of individual multiwalled carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes does not obey Fourier's empirical law of thermal conduction. Because of isotopic disorder, kappa's of carbon nanotubes and boron-nitride nanotubes show different length dependence behavior. Moreover, for these systems we find that Fourier's law is violated even when the phonon mean free path is much shorter than the sample length.