In this study, incorporation of iron ion-doped natrolite nanozeolite, multi-wall carbon nanotubes into chitosan-coated glassy carbon electrode for the simultaneous determination of ascorbic acid, epinephrine, uric acid and tyrosine is studied. The results show that the combination of multi-wall carbon nanotubes and iron ion-doped natrolite zeolite causes a dramatic enhancement in the sensitivit...

Carbon nanotubes have unique properties like high stability, high surface to mass ratio and so on which make them suitable for medicinal purpose applications. Treatment of cancer by organoplatinum agents like Cisplatin has become unresponsive in most cases due to low distribution of drug in biological fluids, inability of drug to cross cellular membranes and low stability in biological environm...

We report a theoretical analysis of the phonon thermal conductance, κ(T ), for single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCN). In a range of low temperatues up to 100K, κ(T ) of perfect SWCN is found to increase with temperature, approximately, in a parabolic fashion. This is qualitatively consistent with recent experimental measurements where the tube-tube interactions are negligibly weak. When the carbo...

We describe spectroscopy measurements of double wall carbon nanotubes using a displacement photocurrent technique. Peaks in the photocurrent are observed at excitation energies corresponding to the spacing of van Hove singularities for both the inner and outer shells of the nanotube. The shell assignment for the peaks can be made by comparing the spectra before and after the formation of the in...

Single-wall carbon nanotubes can be doped, or intercalated, with electron donors or acceptors, similar to graphite and some conjugated polymers. The resulting materials show many of the same features: enhanced electrical conductivity, conduction electron paramagnetism, partial or complete reversibility, and cyclability. Reactions may be carried out in vapor or liquid phase, or electrochemically...

Volumetric techniques were employed to study the adsorption of CO2 on a purified multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWNT’s) sample, as a mesoporous material, at isothermal conditions of 288, 293 and 298 K and pressures ranging from 30 to 150 kPa. Langmuir, Freundlich and Sips equations were used to represent the isotherms. Also the parameters of these fitted isotherm models have been determined. The ...

Using nonresonant bond-polarization theory, the Raman intensity of a single-wall carbon nanotube is calculated as a function of the polarization of light and the chirality of the carbon nanotube. The force-constant tensor for calculating phonon dispersion relations in the nanotubes is scaled from those for two-dimensional graphite. The calculated Raman spectra do not depend much on the chiralit...

Ž . Purified single-wall carbon nanotubes SWNTs were fluorinated at several different temperatures. Product stoichiometries were determined and electron microscopy was used to verify whether or not the fluorination was destructive of the tubes. SWNTs fluorinated at three different temperatures were then defluorinated using hydrazine. Raman spectroscopy and resistance measurements were utilized ...

Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), with their uniquely simple crystal structures and chirality-dependent electronic and vibrational states, provide an ideal laboratory for the exploration of novel 1D physics, as well as quantum engineered architectures for applications in optoelectronics. This article provides an overview of recent progress in optical studies of SWCNTs. In particular, recen...

C(59)N magnetic fullerenes were formed inside single-wall carbon nanotubes by vacuum annealing functionalized C(59)N molecules encapsulated inside the tubes. A hindered, anisotropic rotation of C(59)N was deduced from the temperature dependence of the electron spin resonance spectra near room temperature. Shortening of the spin-lattice relaxation time T(1) of C(59)N indicates a reversible charg...