Nanotube structure/characterization

Carbon nanotubes are also of considerable interest with regard to both reinforcement and possible increases in electrical conductivity [237-239]. There is considerable interest in characterizing the flexibility of these nanotube structures, in minimizing their tendencies to aggregate, and in maximizing their miscibilities with organic and inorganic polymers. 

D. Pantarotto, C.D. Partidos, R. Graff, J. Hoebeke, J.P. Briand, M. Prato, and A. Bianco, Synthesis, structural characterization, and immunological properties of carbon nanotubes functionalized with peptides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 6160-6164 (2003). 

K.A. Wepasnick, B.A. Smith, J.L. Bitter, D.H. Fairbrother, Chemical and structural characterization of carbon nanotube surfaces, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol. 396, pp. 1003-1014, 2010. 

Mo and W dichalcogenides in the last few years. Detailed studies on the synthesis, structural characterization and applications of these inorganic nanotubes can be found in a series of review articles devoted to this topic [20a, 22-24, 214]. 

The small probe size allows the selection of an individual nanostructure and reduction of the background in the electron diffraction pattern from the surrounding materials. An example is given in Section 3.5 for the structure characterization of individual carbon nanotubes (CNT) by electron diffraction. 

S.-H. Hwang, Y.-B. Park, K.H. Yoon, and D.S. Bang, Smart materials and structures based on carbon nanotube composites, in S. Yellampalh, ed., Carbon Nanotubes - Synthesis, Characterization, Applications, InTech, pp. 371-396, 2011. 

Sloan 1, Kirkland Al, Hutchison JL, Green MLH (2002) Structural characterization of atomically regulated nanocrystals formed within single-waUed carbon nanotubes using electron microscopy. Acc Chem Res 35 1054-1062... 

Riviere, SMaJC. 2012. Carbon nanotubes and other tube structures. Characterization of narurstructures, 215-252. Boca Raton CRC Press. 

ZhouW, Ooi YH, Russo R, PapanekP, Luzzi DE, Fischer JE, Bronikowski MJ, WiUis PA, Smalley RE (2001) Structural characterization and diameter-dependent oxidative stability of single wall carbon nanotubes synthesized by the catalytic decomposition of CO. Chem Phys Lett 350 6-14... 

Synthesis, structural characterization, and immunological properties of carbon nanotubes functionalized with peptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125,6160-6164. 

Electronic structure of zigzag carbon nanotubes is characterized by chiral indices ( , 0) and described by the well-known dispersion relation which obtained in the fiamewoik of Huckel jt-electron approximation [3] ... 

Thus, the obtained in the present work results have shown that the nanotubes geometry, characterized by their length, diameter and ring-like structures radius, is nanocomposites polymer/CNT specific feature. This factor plays a crucial role in the interfaeial adhesion polymer matrix - nanofiller level determination and, as consequence, in polymer nanocomposites, filled with CNT, mechanical properties formation. 

C. Balazsi, K. Sedlackova, and Z. Czigany, "Structural characterization of Si3N4-carbon nanotube interfaces by transmission electron microscopy," Composites Science and Technology, 68(6] 1596-1599.2008,... 

R. (2003) Novel silica nanotubes with a high aspect ratio-Synthesis and structural characterization. Advanced Materials, 15(18), 1538. 

Chen IH, Wang CC, Chen CY (2010) Fabrication and structural characterization of polyacrylonitrile and carbon nanofibers containing plasma-modified carbon nanotubes by electrospinning. J Phys Chem C 114(32) 13532-13539. doi 10.1021/jpl03993b... 

Wepasnick KA, Smith BA, Schrote KE, Wilson HK, Diegelmann SR, Fairbrother DH (2011) Surface and structural characterization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes following different oxidative treatments. Carbon 49(l) 24-36. doi 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.08.034... 

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