Carbon nanotubes polyacetylene

J. Steinmetz, H.J. Lee, S. Kwon, D.S. Lee, C. Goze-Bac, E. Aboul-Hamad, H. Kim, Y.W. Park, J.Y. Choi, Routes to the synthesis of carbon nanotube-polyacetylene composites by Ziegler-Natta polymerization of acetylene inside carbon nanotubes, Curr. Appl. Phys., 7, 39 1 (2007). 

What advantages might conductive carbon nanotubes have over polyacetylene ... 

The signal travels through a thick, or even molecularly thin, semiconductor that connects these electrodes it could be an inorganic semiconductor (doped Si, doped Ge), an organic conducting polymer (polyaniline, polythiophene, polyacetylene), a carbon nanotube, or an organic semiconductor (sexithiophene). 

Figure 10.43 Current-voltage characteristics of individual polyacetylene nanofibers. (Reprinted with permission from Synthetic Metals, Current-voltage characteristics of conducting polymers and carbon nanotubes by A. B. Kaiser and Y. W. Park, 152, 1-3. Copyright (2005)...

Keywords Carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, fullerene, graphene, nanocomposites, polyacetylene, polyaniline, polymerization, polypyrrole... 

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