... of RBM, at 388.9 cm–1, in addition to the G- and Dbands The increase in the intensity of D-band for Nifilled MWNTs is due to the non-uniform filling of Ni, resulting in increased degree of disorderness ... the metal- C system Further, reduction in particle size results in lowering of melting temperature [21] According to two widely accepted ‘‘tip-growth’’ and ‘‘root-growth’’ mechanisms, the hydrocarbon ... of carbonnanotubes There could be a further reduction in the catalyst particle size during the hydrogen treatment before the carbon deposition Further, the nickel or iron particles are well interspersed...
... was introduced when room temperatures detection of hazardous gases was desired, consisting in embedding a low amount of metal decorated (Ag, Au) carbonnanotubes into the hex-WO3 matrix Indeed, ... Electronics, Electrical and Automatic Engineering, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain His main research interests are in the field of chemical gas sensors, carbonnanotubes and pattern recognition ... stirring the solution in an ultrasonic bath for h at 75 ◦ C The resulting paste was then dropped onto the micromachined silicon membranes by using a microinjector (JBE1113 Dispenser, I&J FISNAR Inc.,...
... materials exhibit spintronic properties where charges and spin current are intertwined and can generate a spin-Seebeck effect.27,28 Therefore, the observed giant increase in the Seebeck coefficient ... (LSMO) generates spin current These spin currents may be injected into the ferromagnetic semiconductor (LMO) due to lowering of the effective barrier height, which leads to a giant spin-Seebeck effect ... 9(a)) The cylindrical pillar device structures were fabricated using AZ-9260 resist as an etching mask for inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching (ICP-RIE) (Fig 9(b)) The etching recipe...
... thinking Because of the synthesis impairment, acetylcholine is decreased in the neurons in the Alzheimer disease brain, leading to the incapability of learning, memory, and thinking Providing ... targeting of carbonnanotubesin mice Nat Nanotechnol 2007, 2:47-52 56 Liu Z, Tabakman S, Welsher K, Dai H: Carbonnanotubesin biology and medicine in vitro and in vivo detection, imaging and ... considered for obtaining desired treatment effects The studied ways of CNT administration include oral and injections such as subcutaneous injection, abdominal injection, and intravenous injection There...
... 81.05.Qk; 81.07.Pr Introduction Due to the increasing importance of energy dissipation in the electronic industry, thermal conductivity of cured epoxy resins has been widely investigated over ... existence of intertube Umklapp scattering processes In addition, SWNTs exhibit a higher number of phonon vibrational modes and a lower defect density in relation to MWNTs, leading to a higher intrinsic ... transferred from the nanotube crystalline structure into the insulating polymer matrix This behavior has already been observed in cured resins [27, 28], but not in the pre-cured state The addition...
... samples were imbedded in KBr disks Elemental analysis (EA) was performed by using a CE Instruments EA1110 The melting points (mp) were determined on a Mel-Temp melting point apparatus and are ... was conducted both in air and nitrogen atmospheres with a heating rate of 10 °C/min using a Perkin–Elmer TGA7 The field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) used in this work was a LEO ... [19] Single-walled carbonnanotubes (SWCNTs, 30–40 wt% 767 purity) were obtained from Hanwha Nanotech Co., LTD, Seoul, Korea (http://hnt.hanwha.co.kr/) Instrumentation Fourier-transform infrared...
... sp2bonded carbon atoms in the two-dimensional hexagonal lattice of the graphite layer In addition, the G-band indicates the degree of crystallinity in the graphite structure, whereas the intensity ... particle sizes of Ni catalyst metal layers treated by H2 plasma etching are about 20–30 nm, which are displayed in the cross-sectional TEM images in Fig It is interesting to note that the geometries ... Amorphous carbon and carbonaceous particles were decreased and denser vertically aligned MWCNTs were obtained for a higher flow rate pretreatment, as shown in Fig In addition, the MWCNTs shown in Fig...
... irregular, having different periodicities in different parts and being asymmetric with VD, which points to a non-ideal Fabry–Perot interference pattern due to minor disorder or inhomogeneity ... inner tubes The continuously switching between two electronic states can be attributed to the locally orientational depinning or melting of a small part of inner tube at certain temperature (TOM, ... conductance Fig Different I–VD curves of a metallic DWCNT recorded around 9.9 K continuously indicate that there are multi-stable conductance states in this tube Inset: Linear conductance of the DWCNT as...
... University of Singapore, for kindly providing platinum(IV) compounds, and Prof RAMAPRABHU Sundara, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, for providing ultrapure multi-walled carbonnanotubes ... established a variety of loading strategies, mainly including (a) chemical binding to external surface, (b) π-π stacking on both internal and external surface, (c) encapsulation into inner cavity, etc., ... Chapter Introduction In 2005, Ajima et al first reported the entrapment of CDDP within oxidised singlewalled carbon nanohorns (SWCNHox), finding that the CDDP clusters were maintained inside the...
... 1.3 Interactions between transition -metal atoms, Si(001), and nanotubes 1.3.1 Interactions of transition -metal atoms with Si(001) 1.3.2 Interactions of transition -metal atoms with nanotubes ... reviewed in Section 1.3 Chapter Introduction 1.3 Interactions between transition -metal atoms, Si(001), and nanotubes 1.3.1 Interactions of transition -metal atoms with Si(001) Transition -metal silicides, ... nanowires These functionalized nanotubes show high spin polarization which is useful in spintronics Finally, the interactions between carbonnanotubes and Si(001) surfaces were investigated through two...
... more industrial and services products In addition, the population is rising day by day, the demand for industrial products and services increases Increasing in demand for goods requires increasing ... Economic transition toward industrialization, modernization in our country are a quick increase in GDP from industry and services, a decrease in GDP from agriculture at once The process of economic transition ... in 2010, this rate was 49,5% in Viet Nam Labour density in industry and service increased instead Therefore, economic transition happens while a country carries out industrialization and modernization...
... Part II Carbonnanotubes as nanofillers Allotropic forms of Carbon Curl, Kroto, Smalley 1985 graphene Iijima 1991 (From R Smalley´s web image gallery) CarbonNanotubes - Single-wall nanotubes ... Advantages : temperature, the insert gas, pressure, gas flow, catalyst, etc – Insert hydrocarbon gas (C2H2, C2H4, CH4, etc) into quartz tube and obtain Energy insert gas decomposed and CNT ... cohesion between nanotubes nm TEM of SWNTs : axial view Bundle-like aggregation maintained upon melt blending within polymer matrix Bundle-like aggregates EVA + MWNT’s 500 nm The Processing Challenge...
... (%) In further study, heavy metal leaching into rain water with lower pH value and longer soaking time should be investigated; the use of mixing treated sludge with raw material/powder for making ... electroplating waste water treatment system in \ Heavy metal rich sludge Dehydration (dry at room temperature and at 1050C-1100C) Cooling Treating and Grinding Fine screening (d ≤ 0,05 mm) Reuse Fig Diagram ... soaking 3.4 Cost estimation M1 0.3 M2 M3 Concentration (mg/l) 0.25 M4 M5 0.2 M6 0.15 0.1 0.05 0 14 21 Soaking time (day) Fig Concentration of some heavy metals existing in sludge in the rain water...
... studied the binding of pristine fullerene complexed with cyclodextrin on bovine serum albumin protein demonstrating that the binding is a multistep process First, the cyclodextrin dissociation ... the work Printed on acid-free paper springer.com Preface The emerging field of nanotechnology is affirming its increasing importance day by day In this context fullerenes and carbonnanotubes ... experiments inin vitro agarose gel infusion and in vivo infusion in rat brain have been carried out (Fatouros et al., 2006) In this case Gd3N@C80, functionalized with PEG and hydroxyl groups, was examined...
... histidines (His67 and His247, presumably providing metal binding at site II and the neighbouring His242) bind phosphate ions, thereby providing another level of competition for metal ion binding Kinetics ... Ni(II)-albumin complex It would be also interesting to follow the indirect effects of physiologically relevant Ca2+ binding (which occurs at separate sites in the protein [20,21]) on metal ion binding ... presented in Fig For VIHN and DAHam Fig Kinetics of Ni(II) binding to DAHKam and HSA at pH 7.4 in 100 mM phosphate buer Left panel, kinetic plots (d, experimental points constructed by adding intensities...
... semiconducting tubules remain semiconducting when the weak interlayer coupling is introduced[l5] More interesting is the case of coaxial metal- semiconductor and semiconductormetal nanotubes, ... on single nanotubes, characterized for their diameter and chirality Interesting effects can be observed incarbonnanotubes for diameters in the range 1-20 nm, depending Physics of carbonnanotubes ... properties of 1D carbonnanotubes are seen to arise predominately from intralayer interactions, rather than from interlayer interactions between multilayers within a single carbon nanotube or...
... with explicit consideration of carbon- carbon bond-alternation patterns accompanied by the metal- insulator transition inherent in low-dimensional materials including CNT Moreover, recent selective ... 24 metal carbonyl Silica support Sol-gel process 700 Acetylene 25 Co Ultra fine particle Laser etching of Co 1000 Triazine 26 thin film Ultra fine particle Decomposition of 800 Acetylene 24 metal ... with Hamada i indices (40+8k, S+k) with k=0, ,9 In (a), (al) and (a2) the initial stacking at q0 was ABAB whereas in (b), (bl) and (b2) the initial stacking was random (a) The normal incidence pattern...
... semiconducting tubules remain semiconducting when the weak interlayer coupling is introduced[l5] More interesting is the case of coaxial metal- semiconductor and semiconductormetal nanotubes, ... on single nanotubes, characterized for their diameter and chirality Interesting effects can be observed incarbonnanotubes for diameters in the range 1-20 nm, depending Physics of carbonnanotubes ... properties of 1D carbonnanotubes are seen to arise predominately from intralayer interactions, rather than from interlayer interactions between multilayers within a single carbon nanotube or...
... heavy metals from cobalt tailings stockpiled as result of copper mining upstream at Kilembe mines prevented heavy metals from reaching the lake This in turn prevented heavy metals from accumulating ... name phytochelatins Phytochelatins are heavy metal complexing peptides composed of different amino acids (r- glutamic acid - cysteine)n - glycine n = to 7, which are involved in detoxication ... including humic, tannic and fulvic acids (HA, TA, & FA) An understanding of heavy metal organic interactions is therefore important in developing realistic models for heavy metal speciation in...