Carbon nanotubes in an ancient Damascus sabre

Carbon nanotubes: An explosive thrust for nanotubes.

An Introduction to Carbon Nanotubes

This paper will introduce many of the interesting aspects of carbon nanotubes. It will give an overview of the geometry, metallicity, physical properties, transport and applications of carbon nanotubes.

Cheating Death in Damascus

Evidential and Causal Decision Theory are the leading contenders as theories of rational action, but both face fatal counterexamples. We present some new counterexamples, including one in which the optimal action is causally dominated. We also present a novel decision theory, Functional Decision Theory (fdt), which simultaneously solves both sets of counterexamples. Instead of considering which...

Polarons in carbon nanotubes.

We use ab initio total-energy calculations to predict the existence of polarons in semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNTs). We find that the CNTs' band edge energies vary linearly and the elastic energy increases quadratically with both radial and with axial distortions, leading to the spontaneous formation of polarons. Using a continuum model parametrized by the ab initio calculations, we estim...

Electrowetting in carbon nanotubes.

We demonstrate reversible wetting and filling of open single-wall carbon nanotubes with mercury by means of electrocapillary pressure originating from the application of a potential across an individual nanotube in contact with a mercury drop. Wetting improves the conductance in both metallic and semiconducting nanotube probes by decreasing contact resistance and forming a mercury nanowire insi...