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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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Processing and modeling of conductive thermoplastic/carbon nanotube films for strain sensing

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed conductive, carbon nanotube (CNT)-filled, polymer composite films that can be used as strain sensors with tailored sensitivity and measured resistivities were correlated with the applied strains to evaluate the sensitivity of the nanocomposite film sensor.
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Progress Towards Commercially Viable Li–S Battery Cells

TL;DR: A broad overview of how experimental parameters affect the performance of Li-S batteries is presented in this paper, extending the view on these batteries beyond sophisticated conductive sulfur hosts, which have been the primary focus of many studies in recent years.
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Effect of SOCl2 treatment on electrical and mechanical properties of single-wall carbon nanotube networks.

TL;DR: The SOCl2-induced conductivity increase by p-type doping of the pristine material is interpreted as a Fermi level shift into the valence band, and is consistent with the temperature dependence of the thermopower.
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High dielectric loss and its monotonic dependence of conducting-dominated multiwalled carbon nanotubes/silica nanocomposite on temperature ranging from 373 to 873 K in X-band

TL;DR: In this article, the dielectric properties of multiwalled carbon nanotubes/silica (MWNTs/SiO2) nanocomposite with 10 wt% MWNTs were investigated in the temperature range of 373-873 K at frequencies between 8.2 and 12.4 GHz (X-band).
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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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