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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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Nanotubes as polymers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the structure and behavior of single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) are essentially polymeric; in fact, many have referred to SWNTs as the ultimate polymer.
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In situ decoration of carbon nanotubes with nearly monodisperse magnetite nanoparticles in liquid polyols
TL;DR: In this paper, nearly monodisperse magnetite nanoparticles with sizes less than 10 nm have been successfully deposited on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) by in situ high-temperature decomposition of the precursor iron(III) acetylacetonate and MWNTs in polyol solution.
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Polyimide-functionalized carbon nanotubes: Synthesis and dispersion in nanocomposite films
Liangwei Qu,Yi Lin,Darron E. Hill,Bing Zhou,Wei Wang,Xianfeng Sun,Alex Kitaygorodskiy,Myra Suarez,John W. Connell,Lawrence F. Allard,Ya-Ping Sun +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an amino-terminated polyimide, specifically designed to be structurally identical to the matrix polymer, was synthesized and used in the functionalization of carbon nanotubes.
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Pyrolytic synthesis of boron-doped graphene and its application as electrode material for supercapacitors
Lengyuan Niu,Zhangpeng Li,Wei Hong,Jinfeng Sun,Zhaofeng Wang,Limin Ma,Jinqing Wang,Shengrong Yang +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, boron-doped graphene (BG) was prepared through pyrolysis of graphene oxide (GO) with boric acid (H 3 BO 3 ) in an argon atmosphere at 900°C.
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Near-Infrared Fluorescent Materials for Sensing of Biological Targets
TL;DR: In this review, a number of NIRF materials are discussed including traditional N IRF dye molecules, newly developed NIRf quantum dots and single-walled carbon nanotubes, as well as rare earth metal compounds.
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TL;DR: The nanotubes sensors exhibit a fast response and a substantially higher sensitivity than that of existing solid-state sensors at room temperature and the mechanisms of molecular sensing with nanotube molecular wires are investigated.
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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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TL;DR: X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy showed that fullerene single-wall nanotubes (SWNTs) are nearly uniform in diameter and that they self-organize into “ropes,” which consist of 100 to 500 SWNTs in a two-dimensional triangular lattice with a lattice constant of 17 angstroms.
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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.