The discovery of carbon nanostructures, such as nanotubes and C60 fullerenes, has given rise to a number of potential nanoscale devices. One such device is the gigahertz oscillator, comprising an inner shell sliding inside an outer shell of a multiwalled carbon nanotube, and which, at least theoretically, generates oscillatory frequencies in the gigahertz range. Following the concept of these g...

Carbon nanotube paper, sometimes referred to as bucky paper, is a random arrangement of carbon nanotubes meshed into a single robust structure, which can be manipulated with relative ease. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes were used to make the nanotube paper, and were subsequently modified with platinum using an electroless deposition method based on substrate enhanced electroless deposition. This...

in this paper, a new method is proposed for the production of mwcnts/pvc (multi-walled carbon nanotubes/ polyvinyl chloride) nanocomposites. in this method, a spray is used to produce layers of carbon nanotubes within a pvc matrix. various parameters influence the production of the nanocomposite and its mechanical properties. these parameters are studied separately and the effect of each of par...

Towards the goal of providing a continuous process for the solid-state fabrication of carbon nanotube sheets and yarns from carbon nanotube forests, we report the growth of yarnspinnable and sheet-drawable carbon nanotube forests on highly flexible stainless steel sheets, instead of the conventionally used silicon wafers. Sheets and yarns were fabricated from the 16 cm maximum demonstrated fore...

The physicochemical and droplet impact dynamics of superhydrophobic carbon nanotube arrays are investigated. These superhydrophobic arrays are fabricated simply by exposing the as-grown carbon nanotube arrays to a vacuum annealing treatment at a moderate temperature. This treatment, which allows a significant removal of oxygen adsorbates, leads to a dramatic change in wettability of the arrays,...

chemical vapor deposition (cvd) is one of the most popular methods for producing carbon nanotubes (cnts). the growth rate of cnts based on cvd technique is investigated by using a numerical model based on finite volume method. inlet gas mixture, including xylene as carbon source and mixture of argon and hydrogen as carrier gas enters into a horizontal cvd reactor at atmospheric pressure. in thi...

Single-walled carbon nanotubes are uniquely identified by a pair of chirality indices (n,m), which dictate the physical structures and electronic properties of each species. Carbon nanotube research is currently facing two outstanding challenges: achieving chirality-controlled growth and understanding chirality-dependent device physics. Addressing these challenges requires, respectively, high-t...

The use of carbon nanotubes for field effect nanoelectronic devices, which has been recently demonstrated, motivates further studies of electrochemical and chemical analogues of nanotube molecular transistors. However, chemical gating is not applicable for modern electronics due to its slow response. Herein we propose a novel molecular electronic device: Nanotube LightControlled Switch (NLCS). ...

Effective elastic properties for carbon nanotube reinforced composites are obtained through a variety of micromechanics techniques. An embedded carbon nanotube  in  a  polymer  matrix  and  its surrounding  interphase  is  replaced with an equivalent fiber for  predicting  the  mechanical  properties of  the  carbon  nanotube/polymer composite. The effects of an interphase layer between the nan...

By employing the theoretical method based on tight-binding, we study electronic band structure of single-wall carbon nanotube (CNT) superlattices, which the system is the made of the junction between the zigzag and armchair carbon nanotubes. Exactly at the place of connection, it is appeared the pentagon–heptagon pairs as topological defect in carbon hexagonal network. The calculations are base...