Erik Dujardin

TL;DR: In this paper, the stiffness of single-walled carbon nanotubes is estimated by observing their freestanding room-temperature vibrations in a transmission electron microscope, assuming that the vibration modes are driven stochastically and are those of a clamped cantilever.

TL;DR: In this paper, the most promising and appealing properties of graphene are summarized from an exponentially growing literature, with a particular attention to matching production methods to characteristics and to applications, including the high carrier mobility value in suspended and annealed samples for electronic devices, the thickness-dependent optical transparency and, in the mechanical section, the high robustness and full integration of graphene in sensing device applications, emphasizing on the high potential of graphene not only as a post-silicon materials for CMOS device application but more ambitiously as a platform for post-CMOS molecular architecture in

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showed that symmetry breaking in fcc metallic structures to produce anisotropic nanoparticles is based on an intrinsic structural mechanism (twinning) that is subsequently modulated extrinsically during growth in solution by specific adsorption of AuI-surfactant complexes on the side faces/edges of the isometric penta-twinned crystals and which is responsible for the preferential growth along the common [110] axis.

TL;DR: The wetting and capillarity of carbon Nanotubes were studied in detail here and have important implications for the further use of carbon nanotubes in experiments on a nanometer scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported an unusual carbon sample generated by pyrolysis of hydrocarbons, consisting entirely of graphitic microstructures with total disclinations that are multiples of +60°.