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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.
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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. 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.

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Growth of Ultrahigh Density Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Forests for Interconnects

TL;DR: A general catalyst design is presented to synthesize ultrahigh density, aligned forests of carbon nanotubes by cyclic deposition and annealing of catalyst thin films, which leads to nanotube forests with an area density over 1 order of magnitude higher than existing values, and close to the limit of a fully dense forest.
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Monitoring a micromechanical process in macroscale carbon nanotube films and fibers.

TL;DR: Raman scattering-a generic methodology independent of mechanical measurements-is used to determine the interbundle strength and microscopic failure process for various CNT macroarchitectures.
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Study of fire retardant behavior of carbon nanotube membranes and carbon nanofiber paper in carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composites

TL;DR: In this paper, buckypaper and carbon nanofiber (CNF) membranes were incorporated onto the surface of epoxy carbon fiber composites, as proposed fire shields, and their flammability behaviors were investigated by a cone calorimeter.
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Physics and applications of aligned carbon nanotubes

TL;DR: In this article, the first report on growing individually aligned CNTs on various substrates by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) was published, which has led to a new field on growth, characterization, physics, and applications of aligned carbon nanotubes.
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Nanotube molecular wires as chemical sensors

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Room-temperature transistor based on a single carbon nanotube

TL;DR: In this paper, the fabrication of a three-terminal switching device at the level of a single molecule represents an important step towards molecular electronics and has attracted much interest, particularly because it could lead to new miniaturization strategies in the electronics and computer industry.
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Crystalline Ropes of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

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.
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