Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers

Liu, J. Kuo, Y.-T. Klabunde, K.). Rochford, C. Wu, J. Li,)., Novel dye-sensitized solar cell architecture using Tio2-coated vertically aligned carbon nanofiber arrays. Acs. Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2009,1,1645-1649. 

Four different aryldiazonium salts have been used to functionalize SWCNTs through electrochemical reduction. By XPS and Raman diffusion measurements, the growth of aryl chains on the sidewalls of the nanotubes was observed [178]. Electrically addressable biomolecular functionalization of SWCNT electrodes and vertically aligned carbon nanofiber electrodes with DNA was achieved by elec-trochemically addressing (reduction) of nitrophenyl substituted nanotubes and nanofibers. Subsequently, the resulting amino functions were covalently linked to DNA forming an array of DNA-CNT hybrid nanostructures (Scheme 1.28) [179],... 

Li C, Zhang Y, Mann M, Hiralal P, Unalan HE, Lei W, et al. Stable, self-ballasting field emission from zinc oxide nanowires grown on an array of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers. Appl Phys Lett 2010 96 143114—7. 

Baker, S., et al. (2006). Functionalized Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers as Scaffolds for Immobilization and Electrochemical Detection of Redox-Active Proteins. Chemistry of Materials. 18, 4415 422. 

Yu Z, McKnight TE, Ericson MN et al (2012) Vertically aligned carbon nanofiber as nano-neuron interface for monitoring neural function. Nanomedicine 8 419 23... 

Park KH, Lee S, Koh KH, Lacerda R, Teo KBK, Milne WI (2005) Advanced nanosphere lithography for the areal-density variation of periodic arrays of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers. J Appl Phys 97 024311-1... 

Nguyen-Vu TDB, Chen H, CasseU Alan M (2006) Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays An Advance toward Electrical-Neural Interfaces. Small 2 89-94. 

In a second noteworthy example, vertically aligned carbon nanofibers (VACNF) were used as a surface by Baker et al. [45]. Freshly prepared VACNFs are known to bind alkenes, which were used to attach tcrt-butyloxycarbonyl (BOC)-protected 10-aminodec-l-ene onto the stuface (Scheme 24). After deprotection, the amino... 

Scheme 24 Coating of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers with DNA by using a linker...

Guillom, M. A., McKnight, T. E., Melechko, A. et al. 2002. Individually addressable vertically aligned carbon nanofiber-based electrochemical probes. J. Appl. Phys. 91 3824—3828. 

Fibrous assemblies like nanofibers, nanopipes, and nanotubes may have applications in micro-/ nanofiuidic systems. Vertically aligned carbon... 

Chenga, J. et al. (2004). Long Bundles of Aligned Carbon Nanofibers Obtained by Vertical Floating Catalyst Method. 241-245. 

Fig. 12 (a, b) An 80 jjim carbon nanotobe island grown on a 100 xm conductive titanium nitride pad scale bar is 10 p.m [91]. These entwined nanotubes give a matted surface scale bar is 100 p.m. Reproduced with permission (c) Vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanofiber array after elec-trodepositing a 40-nm-thick conformal polypyrrole film scale bar is 500 nm [92]. Reproduced with permission, (d) PEDOT nanotubes formed using PLLA templates [93]... 

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