Electrical transport properties of individual metallic double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) were measured down to liquid helium temperature, and multi-stable conductance states were found in DWCNTs. At a certain temperature, DWCNTs can switch continuously between two or more electronic states, but below certain temperature, DWCNTs are stable only at one of them. The temperature for switching...

Massive pulmonary cavity is a rare and serious complication of chronic reactivation tuberculosis. A 38-year-old gentleman had a history of tuberculosis treatment noncompliance 2 years ago. His presenting symptoms were cough, fever, and left-sided pleuritic chest discomfort for 2 months. Chest radiographs showed extensive lung destruction associated with large thick-walled cavities and severe fi...

We carry out a molecular dynamics study of nanobearings based on double-walled carbon nanotubes with a short rotating outer tube. A (4, 4)/(9, 9) bearing configuration shows peculiar stabilization of rotational motion at certain values of angular velocities. The observed trend is found at those values of initial angular velocities (in the current context, 0.8-1.5 rad ps(-1)) which denote a tran...

An original image analysis method is presented to characterize multi-walled carbon nanotubes from transmission electron microscopy images. The analysis is performed in three steps: (i) image preprocessing in order to isolate the nanotubes from the background, (ii) image segmentation, aiming at keeping only the measurable sections of nanotubes, and finally (iii) tube characteristics measurement....

Motivated by the problem of self-excited oscillations in fluid-filled collapsible tubes, we examine the flow structure and energy budget of flow through an elastic-walled tube. Specifically, we consider the case in which a background axial flow is perturbed by prescribed small-amplitude high-frequency long-wavelength oscillations of the tube wall, with a slowly growing or decaying amplitude. We...

OBJECTIVES In this study, the effect of tube length and outer diameter (OD) size of hydroxylated-multi walled carbon nanotubes (OH-MWCNTs) on their uptake and toxicity was investigated in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans using a functional mutant analysis. METHODS The physicochemical properties of three different OH-MWCNTs were characterized. Uptake and toxicity were subsequently investiga...

The mechanisms of pressure-driven water infiltration into single walled carbon nanotubes are explored using molecular dynamics simulations. Both quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions are investigated, and the influence of tube size is examined. Under quasi-static loading, the water molecules flow into the tube via surface diffusion at a low pressure and when the external pressure reaches ...

The transparency of contacts between conjugated molecules and metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes is investigated using a single-particle Green's function method which combines a Landauer approach with ab initio density functional theory. We find that the overall conjugation required for good contact transparency is broken by connecting through a six-member ring on the tube. Full conjugatio...

Treating the arteries as a thin-walled and prestressed elastic tube with a stenosis and the blood as a Newtonian fluid with negligible viscosity, we have studied the amplitude modulation of nonlinear waves in such a composite system by use of the reductive perturbation method. The governing evolution equation is obtained as the variable-coefficient nonlinear Schrödinger equation. It is observed...

Near-infrared magneto-optical spectroscopy of single-walled carbon nanotubes reveals two absorption peaks with an equal strength at high magnetic fields (>55 T). We show that the peak separation is determined by the Aharonov-Bohm phase due to the tube-threading magnetic flux, which breaks the time-reversal symmetry and lifts the valley degeneracy. This field-induced symmetry breaking thus overc...