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Figure 12 Schematic process flow-chart for the CVD synthesis of regular arrays of oriented nanotubes on a porous silicon through catalyst patterning (a) SEM image of nanotube blocks synthesized on 250 tm by 250 pm catalyst pattern. The nanotubes are 80 pm long and oriented perpendicular to the substrate, (b) SEM image of nanotube towers synthesized on 38 pm by 38 pm catalyst pattern. The nanotubes are 130 pm long, and (c) side view of the nantube towers in (b). (Reprinted with permission from S. Fan, M.G. Chapfrne, N.R. Franklin, T.W. Tombler, A.M. Cassell, and H. Dai, Science, 1999, 283, 512. 1999 AAAS)...

Sato Y, Yokoyama A, Kasai T, Hashiguchi S, Ootsubo M, Ogino SL et al. In vivo rat subcutaneous tissue response of binder-free multi-waUed carbon nanotube blocks cross-linked by de-fluorination. Carbon 2008 46 1927-34. 

Fig. I. Field emission dala from a mounted nanotube. An activated nanotube emits a higher current when heated by the laser than when the laser beam is bloeked (a). When aetivated by exposing the nanotube to oxygen while heating the tip, this behavior is reversed, and the emission current increases dramatically when the laser is blocked. The activated state can also be achieved by laser heating while maintaining a bias voltage of —75 V. Note that the scale of the two plots is different the activated current is always higher than the inactivated current. As discussed in the text, these dala led to the conclusion that the emitting feature is a chain of carbon atoms pulled from a single layer of the nanotube —an atomic wire.

There is currently considerable interest in processing polymeric composite materials filled with nanosized rigid particles. This class of material called "nanocomposites" describes two-phase materials where one of the phases has at least one dimension lower than 100 nm [13]. Because the building blocks of nanocomposites are of nanoscale, they have an enormous interface area. Due to this there are a lot of interfaces between two intermixed phases compared to usual microcomposites. In addition to this, the mean distance between the particles is also smaller due to their small size which favors filler-filler interactions [14]. Nanomaterials not only include metallic, bimetallic and metal oxide but also polymeric nanoparticles as well as advanced materials like carbon nanotubes and dendrimers. However considering environmetal hazards, research has been focused on various means which form the basis of green nanotechnology. 

In general, nanotechnology MBBs are distinguished for their unique properties. They include, for example, graphite, fullerene molecules made of various numbers of carbon atoms (C60, C70, C76, C240, etc.), carbon nanotubes, nanowires, nanocrystals, amino acids, and diamondoids [97]. All these molecular building blocks are candidates for various applications in nanotechnology. 

Since the discovery of SWNTs, they have been expected to become the building blocks of the next generation of functional nanomaterials. However, their strong cohesive property and poor solubility have restricted the use of SWNTs for fundamental and applied research fields. One method to overcome these problems is to make the SWNTs more soluble by wrapping them with polymers [31]. At the same time, the fabrication of high-performance carbon nanotube (CNT)-based composites is driven by the ability to create anisotropy at the molecular level to obtain appropriate functions. 

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Ajayan et al., 2003). Both single- and multi-walled carbon nanotubes have become ideal nanoscale-building blocks for nanoengineering. A lot of studies suggest that CNTs have extensive commercial application potential in medical chemistry and biomedical engineering. 

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The nanostructured surfaces resemble, at least to a certain degree, the architecture of physiological adhesion substrates, such as extracellular matrix, which is composed from nanoscale proteins, and in the case of bone, also hydroxyapatite and other inorganic nanocrystals [16,17,24-27]. From this point of view, carbon nanoparticles, such as fullerenes, nanotubes and nanodiamonds, may serve as important novel building blocks for creating artificial bioinspired nanostructured surfaces for bone tissue engineering. 

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