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Christopher A. Bower
Researcher at Research Triangle Park
Publications - 166
Citations - 9143
Christopher A. Bower is an academic researcher from Research Triangle Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transfer printing & Carbon nanotube. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 161 publications receiving 8709 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher A. Bower include Alcatel-Lucent & Agere Systems.
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Alignment of carbon nanotubes in a polymer matrix by mechanical stretching
TL;DR: In this paper, a method to fabricate polymer-based composites with aligned carbon nanotubes is described, and a procedure to determine the nanotube orientation and the degree of alignment is presented.
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Large current density from carbon nanotube field emitters
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors observed that field emitters made from carbon nanotubes exhibit excellent macroscopic emission properties; they can operate at a very large current density, as high as 4 A/cm2.
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Plasma-induced alignment of carbon nanotubes
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that carbon nanotubes can be grown on contoured surfaces and aligned in a direction always perpendicular to the local substrate surface, primarily induced by the electrical self-bias field imposed on the substrate surface from the plasma environment.
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Deformation of carbon nanotubes in nanotube–polymer composites
TL;DR: In this paper, the onset buckling strain and fracture strain were estimated to be ≈5% and ⩾18%, respectively, in uniaxially oriented multi-walled carbon nanotubes embedded in polymer matrices.
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Nucleation and growth of carbon nanotubes by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition
TL;DR: The nucleation and growth of aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes by microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition have been studied in this article, where the authors proposed a detailed model to explain these experimental observations.