Organic-inorganic hybrid photovoltaics are beginning to show significant promise as a low cost highly efficient route towards renewable energy generation. Of the hybrid architectures available, carbon nanotube incorporated organic photovoltaics is considered to be among the most promising. Herein, the optical and electronic effects of localizing multiwalled carbon nanotubes in the donor polymer...

Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were oxidized with different agents and a characterization study was carried out. Then, hybrid-magnetic nanoparticles (HMNPs) were synthesized as iron oxide supported on the selected multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs-Fe₃O₄) obtained from MWCNTs oxidized with HNO3. The HMNPs characterization revealed the presence of iron oxide as magnetite onto the MWCNTs s...

In-situ three terminal electron field emission characterisation of an isolated multiwalled carbon nanotube has been performed. Both anode and gate electrodes are attached to high precision piezo-drivers allowing for the characterisation of single emitters. All measurements are performed in a scanning electron microscope allowing accurate knowledge of the local environment of the nanotube to be ...

We report a simple method to fabricate macroscopic, 3-D, free standing, all-carbon scaffolds (porous structures) using multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) as the starting materials. The scaffolds prepared by radical initiated thermal crosslinking, and annealing of MWCNTs possess macroscale interconnected pores, robust structural integrity, stability, and conductivity. The porosity of the thre...