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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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Physical Adsorption of Block Copolymers to SWNT and MWNT: A Nonwrapping Mechanism
Einat Nativ-Roth,Rina Shvartzman-Cohen,Céline Bounioux,Marc Florent,Dongsheng Zhang,Igal Szleifer,Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed study of the interaction mechanism between carbon nanotubes and physically adsorbed block copolymers is presented, and the combination of experimental observations, computer simulations and theory suggests that while the solvophobic blocks adsorb to the nanotube by a nonwrapping mechanism, the dangling (solvophilic) blocks provide a steric barrier that leads to the formation of stable dispersions of individual single walled carbon nanophilic blocks above a threshold concentration of the polymer.
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Closed network growth of fullerenes.
Paul W. Dunk,Nathan K. Kaiser,Christopher L. Hendrickson,John P. Quinn,Christopher P. Ewels,Yusuke Nakanishi,Yuki Sasaki,Hisanori Shinohara,Alan G. Marshall,Harold W. Kroto +9 more
TL;DR: The results shed new light on the fundamental processes that govern self-assembly of carbon networks, and the processes that are revealed are likely be involved in the formation of other carbon nanostructures from carbon vapour, such as nanotubes and graphene.
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Single-walled carbon nanotube/cobalt phthalocyanine derivative hybrid material: preparation, characterization and its gas sensing properties
Yanyan Wang,Nantao Hu,Zhihua Zhou,Dong Xu,Zi Wang,Zhi Yang,Hao Wei,Eric Siu-Wai Kong,Yafei Zhang +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a novel hybrid material composed of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) derivatives have been obtained.
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Ultrastrong, foldable, and highly conductive carbon nanotube film.
Jiangtao Di,Dongmei Hu,Hongyuan Chen,Zhenzhong Yong,Minghai Chen,Zhihai Feng,Yuntian Zhu,Qingwen Li +7 more
TL;DR: The unique structure of the CNT film (good nanotube alignment, high packing density) provides the film with direct and efficient transport paths for electricity, and favors a magnesium oxide coating to exhibit high charge/discharge rate stability and an excellent electrochemical capacitance close to its theoretical value.
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Graphene-based nanomaterials: biological and medical applications and toxicity
Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli,Vânia Aparecida Mendes Goulart,Katia N. Gomes,Marina Ladeira,Anderson K. Santos,Eudes Lorençon,Luiz Orlando Ladeira,Rodrigo R. Resende +7 more
TL;DR: All aspects of how graphene is internalized after in vivo administration or in vitro cell exposure were brought about, and how blood-brain barrier can be overlapped by graphene nanomaterials are explained.
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