We report a study of the growth of conductive single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) films with ultrahigh transparency (typically above 98% at 550 nm wavelength) on quartz substrates. Ferritin was used as the catalyst precursor and ethanol as the carbon feed. The effects of experimental parameters on film structure and performance have been investigated. Catalyst concentration and pre-annealing of...

Based on plasma-treated single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), SWCNT/SiO(2) and thiol groups-functionalized SWCNT/SiO(2) hybrids have been fabricated through a sol-gel process. By means of thiol groups, Ag nanoparticles have been in situ synthesized and bonded onto the SiO(2) shell of SWCNT/SiO(2) in the absence of external reducing agent, resulting in the stable carbon nanotube/SiO(2)/Ag nanop...

The aim of this study is investigating the transport mechanism of ibuprofen chiral isomers inside single wall carbon nano tube (SWCNT) using mathematical modeling. To achieve this goal, molecular dynamics simulation has been performed to evaluate the interactions of ibuprofen isomers with SWCNT in an aqueous solution. Results show that both chiral forms of ibuprofen molecules enter and remain i...

Single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) constructs were covalently appended with radiometal-ion chelates (1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7,10-tetraacetic acid [DOTA] or desferrioxamine B [DFO]) and the tumor neovascular-targeting antibody E4G10. The E4G10 antibody specifically targeted the monomeric vascular endothelial-cadherin (VE-cad) epitope expressed in the tumor angiogenic vessels. The co...

Monte Carlo simulations of coronene molecules in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and dicoronylene molecules in SWCNTs are performed. Depending on the diameter D of the encapsulating SWCNT, regimes favoring the formation of ordered, one-dimensional (1D) stacks of tilted molecules (D ≤ 1.7 nm for coronene@SWCNT, 1.5 nm ≤ D ≤ 1.7 nm for dicoronylene@SWCNT) and regimes with disordered molec...

Bode stability analysis based on transmission line modeling (TLM) for single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) interconnects used in 3D-VLSI circuits is investigated for the first time. In this analysis, the dependence of the degree of relative stability for SWCNT interconnects on the geometry of each tube has been acquired. It is shown that, increasing the length and diameter of each tube, SWCNT in...

A facile "scratching" method to pattern a catalyst with commonly used metal objects, such as blade, pen cover, tweezers, watchband, knife, key, clamp, and coin, was developed. The single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) networks and well-aligned SWCNT arrays successfully grew by chemical vapor deposition on the scratched catalyst patterns on Si/SiO(x) and quartz, respectively. This method provide...

In this study, complexes composed of poly-l-tyrosine (pLT) and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) were produced and the dispersibility of the pLT/SWCNT complexes in water by measuring the ζ potential of the complexes and the turbidity of the solution were investigated. It is found that the absolute value of the ζ potential of the pLT/SWCNT complexes is as high as that of SWCNTs modified wi...

Molecular dynamic simulation method has been employed to consider the critical buckling force, pressure, and strain of pristine and defected single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) under axial compression. Effects of length, radius, chirality, Stone-Wales (SW) defect, and single vacancy (SV) defect on buckling behavior of SWCNTs have been studied. Obtained results indicate that axial stability of...

Enriched semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT (6,5) and SWCNT (7,6)) and HiPco nanotubes were covalently functionalized with either zinc phthalocyanine or silicon phthalocyanine as electron donors. The synthetic strategy resulted in edge-on and face-on geometries with respect to the phthalocyanine geometry, with both phthalocyanines held by an electronically conducting diphenyla...