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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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Vibration analysis of orthotropic graphene sheets embedded in Pasternak elastic medium using nonlocal elasticity theory and differential quadrature method

TL;DR: In this article, the small scale effect on the vibration analysis of orthotropic single layered graphene sheets embedded in elastic medium is studied using the nonlocal differential constitutive relations of Eringen.
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Electron field emission from transparent multiwalled carbon nanotube sheets for inverted field emission displays

TL;DR: In this paper, Zhao et al. showed that strong, conducting, transparent carbon nanotube sheets were prepared by solid-state draw from well-ordered, aligned multi-walled carbon-nanotube (MWCNT) forests and showed threshold fields of less than 0.5 V/μm with current densities high enough for display applications.
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Cobalt Porphyrin Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Oxygen Reduction

TL;DR: In this paper, a Co(II) porphyrin-based multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were prepared by covalently grafting a Co((2)-PORPHyrin to functionalized MWCNTs via zwitterionic functionalization of the CNT sidewalls followed by a SN2 substitution reaction.
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A molecular mechanics approach for the vibration of single-walled carbon nanotubes

TL;DR: In this article, the vibrational properties of zigzag and armchair single-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) using the molecular mechanics approach were investigated and the natural frequencies of vibration and their associated intrinsic vibration modes were obtained.
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Scale effect on wave propagation of double-walled carbon nanotubes

TL;DR: In this article, the scale effect on transverse wave propagation in double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) is studied via nonlocal elastic continuous models. And the diameter-dependent dispersion relations for DWNTs via the nonlocal continuum models are observed as well.
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Nanotube molecular wires as chemical sensors

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

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

TL;DR: In this paper, the Young's modulus, strength, and toughness of nanostructures are evaluated using an atomic force microscopy (AFM) approach. And the results showed that the strength of the SiC NRs were substantially greater than those found previously for larger SiC structures, and they approach theoretical values.
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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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