The carbon nanotube (CNT) is a unique form of carbon material. Since its discovery, CNT has been intensively studied due to its remarkable electrical, mechanical, thermal, and chemical properties (Iijima, 1991; Katz & Willner, 2004). Based on the structures and dimensions, CNTs can be divided into two groups: single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs). An S...

Owing to their mechanically tunable electronic properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been widely studied as potential components for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS); however, the mechanical properties of multiwall CNTs are often limited by the weak shear interactions between the graphitic layers. Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) exhibit a strong interlayer mechanical coupling, but their ...

A water plasma treatment applied to vertically-aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) synthesized by plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition gives rise to surface functionalization and purification of the CNTs, along with an improvement of their electrochemical properties. Additional increase of their charge storage capability is achieved by anodic deposition of manganese dioxide lining t...

One of the main factors that impacts the efficiency of solar cells is due to the scattering of electrons inside the cells. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have proposed to use in solar cells due to their ballistic transport properties: electrons travel through CNTs without experiencing scattering or experiencing negligible scattering. The conductance of CNTs is shown to be quantized and has a multiple ...

Differential wetting of pristine and ozonized carbon nanotubes has been studied using solvents like acetonitrile and dichloromethane in comparison to the well-known wetting behavior of water. Based on their unique structural and physical properties, functionalized CNT substrates have been used due to the fact that independent variation in molecular as well as electronic properties could be cont...

Nanotubes are one of the most promising functional materials in nanotechnology. Silicon nanotubes (SiNTs) have been experimentally validated; they are unique puckered nanotubular structures unlike carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Although the electronic and optical properties of SiNTs have been previously studied, their structure-related capability for electron transport has not been investigated. Here...

carbon nanotube, a new structure of carbon element, is composed of graphene sheets rolled into closed concentric cylinders with diameter of the order of nanometers and length of micrometers. liquid arc discharge was used for fabrication of carbon nanotubes, and subsequently a modified acid treatment method applied for purification stage. a statistical design of experimental (doe) (taguchi metho...

Horizontally aligned, dense carbon nanotubes (HADCNTs) in the form of CNT cantilevers/bridges were grown from selected trench sidewalls in silicon substrate by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The as-grown CNT cantilevers/bridges are packed with multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with a linear density of about 10 CNTs µm(-1). The excellent horizontal alignment of these CNTs is mainly ascribe...

Photosynthetic reaction center proteins (RCs) are the most efficient light energy converter systems in nature. The first steps of the primary charge separation in photosynthesis take place in these proteins. Due to their unique properties, combining RCs with nano-structures promising applications can be predicted in optoelectronic systems. In the present work RCs purified from Rhodobacter sphae...

In the present work we use a selfconsistent version of the EHT to study the electronic transport in metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with various metallic electrodes (Al, Cu, Pd, Pt, Ag, Au). While the electronic structure of the metals is well described by the extended Hückel (EH) parameters of Cerdá [1], we show that a new parameter set for carbon strongly improves the agreement between EHT a...