Single-walled carbon nanotube applications

Margulis, VI.A., Muryumin, E.E. and Tomilin, O.B. (2004) Theoretical study of atomic chemisorption on single-walled carbon nanotubes. Application of Anderson-Newns model, PhysicaB 353(3-4), 314-323. 

Structurally, carbon nanotubes of small diameter are examples of a onedimensional periodic structure along the nanotube axis. In single wall carbon nanotubes, confinement of the stnreture in the radial direction is provided by the monolayer thickness of the nanotube in the radial direction. Circumferentially, the periodic boundary condition applies to the enlarged unit cell that is formed in real space. The application of this periodic boundary condition to the graphene electronic states leads to the prediction of a remarkable electronic structure for carbon nanotubes of small diameter. We first present... 

Many of the carbon nanotube applications presently under consideration relate to multi-wall carbon nanotubes, partly because of their greater availability, and because the applications do not explicitly depend on the ID quantum effects associated with the small diameter single-wall carbon nanotubes. 

The force effect is applicable to investigation of the mechanical properties of nanomaterials [28, 29]. We measured TERS spectra of a single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) bundle with a metallic tip pressing a SWCNT bundle [28]. Figure 2.13a-e show the Raman spectra of the bundle measured in situ while gradually applying a force up to 2.4 nN by the silver-coated AFM tip. Raman peaks of the radial breathing... 

New applications of nitrile oxide 1,3-DC have been reported. Soluble, single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) 32 functionalized with pentyl esters at the tips and pyridyl isoxazoline rings along the walls were prepared using pentyl ester-SWNT as dipolarophile. The complex... 

C.Y. Liu, A.J. Bard, F. Wudl, I. Weitz, and J.R. Heath, Electrochemical characterization of films of single-walled carbon nanotubes and their possible application in supercapacitors. Electrochem. Solid... 

C. Hu, X. Chen, and S. Hu, Water-soluble single-walled carbon nanotubes films preparation, characterization and applications as electrochemical sensing films. J. Electroanal. Chem. 586, 77-85 (2006). 

Hur, S. H. Khang, D. Y. Kocabas, C. Rogers, J. A. 2004. Nanotransfer printing by use of noncovalent surface forces Applications to thin-film transistors that use single-walled carbon nanotube networks and semiconducting polymers. Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 5730-5732. 

NONCOVALENT FUNCTIONALIZATION OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATION RAMAN AND NIR ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY... 

Single-walled carbon nanotubes are novel molecular scale wires exhibiting unusual useful properties for various potential applications... 

In many cases the potential application of single-walled carbon nanotubes is associated with solubility of this nanomaterial in different solvents. Unfortunately, nanotubes are poorly soluble in the most of organic solvents and are insoluble in water, and this fact especially hinders biological using SWNT. Weak solubility of SWNT is a result of substantial van der Waals attractions between nanotubes aggregated in bundles. To solve nanotubes in water without any covalent functionalization, a surfactant would be added into aqueous solution, and then this mixture is suspended by sonication. It is supposed that the sound wave splits bundles in aqueous solution. A surfactant in suspension adsorbed onto the nanotube surfaces precludes aggregation of nanotubes in bundles. 

Abstract. Calculations of the non-linear wave functions of electrons in single wall carbon nanotubes have been carried out by the quantum field theory method namely the second quantization method. Hubbard model of electron states in carbon nanotubes has been used. Based on Heisenberg equation for second quantization operators and the continual approximation the non-linear equations like non-linear Schroedinger equations have been obtained. Runge-Kutt method of the solution of non-linear equations has been used. Numerical results of the equation solutions have been represented as function graphics and phase portraits. The main conclusions and possible applications of non-linear wave functions have been discussed. 

Intermolecular interactions define crucial characteristics of materials for hydrogen storage materials. This topic is discussed in detail in the chapter by Cheng et al. devoted to molecular dynamics simulations of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) with molecular hydrogen. The properties of modified SWNTs, in the contribution from Politzer et al., are also analyzed from the point of view of potential applications in molecular electronics. 

Double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs), first observed in 1996, constitute a unique family of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). -2 DWNTs occupy a position between the single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and the multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs), as they consist of two concentric cylinders of rolled graphene. DWNTs possess useful electrical and mechanical properties with potential applications. Thus, DWNTs and SWNTs have similar threshold voltages in field electron emission, but the DWNTs exhibit longer lifetimes.3 Unlike SWNTs, which get modified structurally and electronically upon functionalization, chemical functionalization of DWNTs surfaces would lead to novel carbon nanotube materials where the inner tubes are intact. The stability of DWNTs is controlled by the spacing of the inner and outer layers but not by the chirality of the tubes 4 therefore, one obtains a mixture of DWNTs with varying diameters and chirality indices of the inner and outer tubes. DWNTs have been prepared by several techniques, such as arc discharge5 and chemical vapor depo-... 

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