Nanotechnology is rapidly developing field in especially engineering and medical sciences. Carbon nanotubes are one of the most studied nanomaterials in material sciences and physics. Although there are limitted number of studies have been performed with carbon nanotubes in medical sciences and pharmacy, to use carbon nanotubes as drug delivery material is still at beginning and at developing s...

Nearly monodisperse iron nanoclusters have been used to define the diameters of carbon nanotubes grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Iron nanoparticles with average diameters of 3, 9, and 13 nm were used to grow carbon nanotubes with average diameters of 3, 7, and 12 nm, respectively. Transmission electron microscopy studies of the nanotubes show that the as-grown nanotubes are single-wal...

In this paper we report on the magnetic properties of singleand multiwalled carbon nanotubes synthesized using different chemical vapour deposition methods and with variety of catalyst materials (ferromagnetic Fe, FeCo and diamagnetic Re). Different methods yield carbon nanotubes with different morphologies and different quantity of residual catalyst material. Catalyst particles are usually enc...

We have continued our efforts in the J. R. Macdonald Laboratory directed toward the study of electronic excitations and dynamics in carbon nanotubes excited by femtosecond pump-probe laser pulses generated by the ultra-fast Ti:Sapphire Kansas Light Source, KLS. We use time-of-flight of electrons emitted from carbon nanotubes to deduce the energy and temporal behavior of the electronic states of...

Vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes possess many advantages for a wide range of multifunctional applications. Along with the controlled growth of aligned/micropatterned carbon nanotubes, surface modification of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes are essential in order to meet specific requirements demanded for particular applications. While many innovative synthetic methods have been developed...

We report the synthesis of highly crystallized multiwalled carbon nanotubes through a modified Wolff-Kishner reduction process at a low temperature of 180 degrees C without adding the conventional catalysts of Fe/Co/Ni into the reaction vessel. The as-synthesized carbon nanotubes are about 10-40 nm in diameter and several tens of micrometers in length. The experimental results indicate that a h...

The synthesis of the gas chromatography stationary phase by molecular self-assembly of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) via a novel ethanol chemical vapor deposition process is presented. A major advantage is that ethanol was found to be an excellent carbon source that generated highly pure multiwalled carbon nanotubes with very little nontubular carbon impurities. The nanotubes were not vertically alig...

Keywords nanoparticles, multiwalled carbon nanotubes, graphene, 2D layered materials, perovskites, surface plasmon resonance, photonic crystals, sensors

multiwalled carbon nanotubes (mwcnts) have been functionalized with -so3h groups using new three steps chemical routes. firstly, oh groups have been attached to cnt surfaces through a radical reaction. the second step involves converting the hydroxyl groups into the oxide one and last step included the attachment of –so3h groups on the mwcnts surfaces in the presence of 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazo...