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Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications
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Many potential applications have been proposed for carbon nanotubes, including conductive and high-strength composites; energy storage and energy conversion devices; sensors; field emission displays and radiation sources; hydrogen storage media; and nanometer-sized semiconductor devices, probes, and interconnects.Abstract:
Many potential applications have been proposed for carbon nanotubes, including conductive and high-strength composites; energy storage and energy conversion devices; sensors; field emission displays and radiation sources; hydrogen storage media; and nanometer-sized semiconductor devices, probes, and interconnects. Some of these applications are now realized in products. Others are demonstrated in early to advanced devices, and one, hydrogen storage, is clouded by controversy. Nanotube cost, polydispersity in nanotube type, and limitations in processing and assembly methods are important barriers for some applications of single-walled nanotubes.read more
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Generic Approach for Dispersing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: The Strength of a Weak Interaction
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Vibration analysis of a single-walled carbon nanotube under action of a moving harmonic load based on nonlocal elasticity theory
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Semiconductor nanowires: A platform for nanoscience and nanotechnology
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Multiple functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with carboxyl and amino groups
TL;DR: In this paper, carboxyl and amino groups have been introduced onto the surface of the multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) by the mixed acid treatment and the diazonium reaction, respectively.
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Enhanced gas sensing in pristine carbon nanotubes under continuous ultraviolet light illumination
TL;DR: It is shown that despite considerable achievements in the last decade, continuous in situ cleaning of carbon nanotubes with ultraviolet light during gas sensing can still dramatically enhance their performance and is illustrated how to address gas selectivity by introducing a gate bias.
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Room-temperature transistor based on a single carbon nanotube
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Crystalline Ropes of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes
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Nanobeam mechanics: Elasticity, strength, and toughness of nanorods and nanotubes
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Thermal transport measurements of individual multiwalled nanotubes.
TL;DR: The thermal conductivity and thermoelectric power of a single carbon nanotube were measured using a microfabricated suspended device and shows linear temperature dependence with a value of 80 microV/K at room temperature.