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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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Engineering Carbon Nanotubes and Nanotube Circuits Using Electrical Breakdown
TL;DR: A simple and reliable method for selectively removing single carbon shells from MWNTs and SWNT ropes to tailor the properties of these composite nanotubes and to directly address the issue of multiple-shell transport.
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Macroscopic Fibers and Ribbons of Oriented Carbon Nanotubes
Brigitte Vigolo,Alain Pénicaud,Claude Coulon,Cédric Sauder,René Pailler,Catherine Journet,P. Bernier,Philippe Poulin +7 more
TL;DR: A simple method was used to assemble single-walled carbon nanotubes into indefinitely long ribbons and fibers, and the obtained elastic modulus is 10 times higher than the modulus of high-quality bucky paper.
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Carbon nanotube composites for thermal management
Michael J. Biercuk,M. C. Llaguno,Marko Radosavljevic,J. K Hyun,Alan T. Johnson,John E. Fischer +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were used to augment the thermal transport properties of industrial epoxy composites and showed a 70% increase in thermal conductivity at 40 K, rising to 125% at room temperature; the enhancement due to 1 wt'% loading of vapor grown carbon fibers was three times smaller.
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Unraveling Nanotubes: Field Emission from an Atomic Wire
Andrew G. Rinzler,Jason H. Hafner,Pavel Nikolaev,Peter Nordlander,Daniel T. Colbert,Richard E. Smalley,Liang Lou,Seong-Gon Kim,David Tománek +8 more
TL;DR: Field emission of electrons from individually mounted carbon nanotubes has been found to be dramatically enhanced when the nanotube tips are opened by laser evaporation or oxidative etching, in a process that resembles unraveling the sleeve of a sweater.
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Carbon nanotube intramolecular junctions
TL;DR: In this paper, electrical transport measurements on single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with intramolecular junctions are reported, showing that a metal-semiconductor junction behaves like a rectifying diode with nonlinear transport characteristics that are strongly asymmetric with respect to bias polarity.