The influence of flexible walls on the self-diffusion of CH4 in an isolated single walled carbon nanotube, as an example, is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. By simulating the carbon nanotube as a flexible framework we demonstrate that the flexibility has a crucial influence on self-diffusion at low loadings. We show how this influence can be incorporated in a simulation of a rigid na...

In this paper, (10, 0) zigzag nanotubes and (6, 6) armchair nanotubes are considered to investigate the effects of randomly distributed vacancy defects on mechanical behaviors of single-walled carbon nanotubes. A spatial Poisson point process is employed to randomly locate vacancy defects on nanotubes. Atomistic simulations indicate that the presence of vacancy defects result in reducing nanotu...

Measurements of the radial breathing modes from Raman Spectroscopy have been most useful in characterizing the diameters of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), where there is a simple monotonic relationship between frequency and diameter. Similar correlations have also been used to predict sizes for double and multiple wall nanotubes and for bundles of SWNT. However this can lead to significan...

We have found that racemic mixtures of chiral single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) wrapped with d(GT)20 DNA oligomer exhibit circular dichroism (CD). We attribute the CD signal to induced CD arising from the coupling of transition moments of the SWNTs and the DNA. Although the nanotube mixture appears to contain both enantiomers in equal amounts, DNA-SWNT transition moment interaction is more constr...

Infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopic measurements have been performed on single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), cleaned by heating to approximately 500 degrees C in vacuo, during exposure to pure 16O2 or 18O2 at room temperature and at pressures of up to approximately 630 Torr. No vibrational signature of any form of adsorbed O is detected. However, structure is seen which is very simila...

The polymer possessing with planar structure can be activated and guided to encapsulate the inner space of SWNT and form a helix through van der Waals interaction and the π-π stacking effect between the polymer and the inner surface of SWNT. The SWNT size, the nanostructure and flexibility of polymer chain are all determine the final structures. The basic interaction between the polymer and the...

The interaction force between functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) plays an important role in the fabrication of self-assembled and highly ordered SWNT arrays for a wide range of potential applications. Here, we measured interaction force between SWNTs encapsulated with polymerized surfactant monolayer (p-SWNTs). The balance between the repulsion between p-SWNTs and the osmotic...

For the purpose of low cost and sensitive electrochemical detection of 17 beta-estradiol (E2), a multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWNT)-Nafion modified electrode was fabricated. The MWNT modified electrode shows enhancement for the anodic peak current of E2 compared with the value obtained using a bare electrode. The anodic peak current measured by square wave voltammetry after 5 min open-circuit ac...

We have discovered that films of carbon single wall nanotubes (SWNTs) make excellent back contacts to CdTe devices without any modification to the CdTe surface. Efficiencies of SWNT-contacted devices are slightly higher than otherwise identical devices formed with standard Au/Cu back contacts. The SWNT layer is thermally stable and easily applied with a spray process, and SWNT-contacted devices...

We have used single-walled carbon nanotube transistors to measure changes in the chemical potential of a solution due to redox-active transition-metal complexes. The interaction of the molecules with a gold electrolyte-gate wire changes the electrostatic potential sensed by the nanotube, which in turn shifts the gate-voltage dependence of the nanotube conductance. As predicted by the Nernst equ...