... which represent the existence of SWCNTs are hardly shown The data show no SWCNTs are formed and there are only poorly multi -walled carbonnanotubes (MWCNTs) and organized carbon in the sample The ... temperature, more and more amorphous carbons are formed, and when the growth temperature increases to 950 °C, only a few SWCNTs are shown in the results and are coated by plenty of amorphous carbons Conclusions ... SWCNTs are formed, and when the temperature is higher than 950 °C, more and more amorphous carbons are formed in the SWCNTs bundles due to the self-decomposition of CH4 The temperature window of SWCNTs...
... spectroscopy applied to single- walledcarbonnanotubes Chem Phys Lett 2005, 410:136 Hartschuh A, Qian H, Meixner AJ, Anderson AJ, Novotny L: Nanoscale optical imaging of single- walledcarbonnanotubes J ... AJ, Anderson N, Novotny L: Nanoscale Optical Imaging of Excitons in Single- WalledCarbonNanotubes Nano Lett 2005, 5:2310 11 Roy D, Williams C: High resolution Raman imaging ofsingle wall carbon ... tip and the Figure TERS (red) and confocal Raman (blue) spectra of the G-mode at seven positions along an SWCNT bundle The gray and light gray peaks represent the Lorentzian fits for the TERS and...
... device, MEMS (Bio and RF), andcarbon nanotube-based nano systems Prof Ju is a member of the Society for Information Display (SID), the Korea Institute of Electrical Engineering (KIEE), and the Korea ... Eriksson, Effect of ozone oxidation on single- walledcarbon nanotubes, J Phys Chem B 110 (2006) 7113–7118 J Li, Y Lu, Q Ye, M Cinke, J Han, M Meyyappan, Carbon nanotube sensors for gas and organic ... 65 (2007) 263–268 W.L Yim, J.F Liu, A reexamination of the chemisorption and desorption of ozone on the exterior of a (5,5) single- walledcarbon nanotube, Chem Phys Lett 398 (2004) 297–303 N.I...
... polymerization of phenoxybenzoic acids [11] and functionalization of closely related carbon materials such as vapor-grown multi -walled carbon nanofibers (MWCNFs) [12, 13] and multi -walled carbonnanotubes ... Results and Discussion Without purification, most of the as-prepared SWCNTs contain approximately 60–70 wt% of impurities such as carbonaceous fragments, amorphous carbons, and small amount of graphite ... efficient medium for covalent attachment of TMPBA onto SWCNTs Conclusions The purification of SWCNTs and the covalent attachment of TMPBA onto the surface of SWCNTs were conducted in a mild and thus less...
... purity of the MWNT and the presence of the graphitized layer between the nanotubesandcarbon paper in Sample C The absence of the graphitized layer between the MWNT andcarbon paper in samples B and ... ambient air and scanning in the 2h range of 10–90°, in steps of 0.05° X-ray diffraction pattern of DyNi2 alloy shows the formation ofsingle phase with a C 15 type cubic structure XRD pattern of as-prepared ... micrometer controlled translational stage and in the case of samples A and B the distance was held at 400 lm andfor samples B and D, the separation was 500 lm A DC power source was used for sourcing...
... (2007) 2:447–449 Table Calculated total energy of singlet and triplet state for boron and nitrogen doped single wall zig-zag and armchair carbonnanotubes Formula Type C68B2 Armchair Method Total energy ... energy between the singlet and doublet states The + sign means the triplet state has lower energy than the singlet state Fig (a) Optimized structure of C68B2 armchair singlewalledcarbon nanotube ... carbon nanotube (b) optimized structure of zig-zag C68B2 singlewalledcarbon nanotube Methods and Results The structures at minimum energy of zig-zag (7,0) and armchair (5,5) tubes are obtained...
... bonding in this case Therefore, even with the addition of 20 vol.% H2 (H2/O2 of 10/40 (sccm/sccm)) in gas, there is still a significant removal of amorphous carbonand formation of oxygen-containing ... presence ofcarbonand oxygen on the treated and untreated samples are normalized with respect 123 236 Nanoscale Res Lett (2009) 4:234–239 Fig a SEM and b TEM images of the pristine MWCNTs, c SEM, and ... of amorphous carbon is minimized Note that the amount of surface defects is important for functional groups to form on the nanotube surface [10] In order to evaluate the formation of defects on...
... modes are 19 and 10, respectively, for AC-1 BC2N nanotubes in irrespective of n The numbers of Raman- and IR- active phonon modes for ZZ-1 BC2N nanotubes are almost twice as for AC-1 BC2N nanotubes, ... common divisor of 2n þ m and 2m þ n ; d is 0 the greatest common divisor of n and m ; SN/d and SN are the screw-axis operations with the orders of N/d and N, respectively The point group of the line ... BC2N nanotubes were discussed based on line group All BC2N nanotubes possess nonsymmorphic line groups, just like carbonnanotubes [8] and boron nitride nanotubes [11] Contrary to carbonand boron...
... action of MWCNT in the transformation of serogroup C N meningitidis against two different DNA obtained from isogenic mutants of this microorganism Methods Synthesisof multi -walled carbonnanotubes ... amounts of DNA(1µg) from M2 and M6 mutants, MWCNT (20 µg) and bacterial cells were submitted to action 5U of DNase (New England Biolabs, UK) and further transformation process Also, the counts of ... Nanobiotechnology Program – Effects ofcarbonnanotubes under biological systems) and the personal fellowships for LMH, HJC Thanks for the English revision to Júlia N Varela and Maria Cecília T Amstalden...
... radius of MWNTs is between and 10 nm and the Ag NPs deposit on the MWNTs For the Ag/MWNTs- P (Fig 1a), the size of Ag NPs is smaller (ca nm), some of them could enter the cavities of MWNTs and deposit ... Templated synthesisof single- walledcarbon nanotube and metal nanoparticle assemblies in solution, J Am Chem Soc 128 (2006) 15078–15079 [31] V Lordi, N Yao, J Wei, Method for supporting platinum on single- walled ... attraction of negatively charged silver and positively charged cationic radical of RhB So the presence of optimal content of Ag NPs, here is 3.0 wt%, can reduce the possibility of excitons quenching and...
... of PECVD-grown CNTs b TEM image of ALD ZnO-coated CNTs c and d SEM images of ALD ZnO-coated CNTs e TEM image of ALD AlxOy-coated CNTs Fig Raman spectrum of CNTs before (a) and after (b) ALD of ... Raman spectrum of our PECVD MWCNTs (Fig curve a) shows a strong D band, indicating the existence of defects on the tube wall Compared to MWCNTs, the surfaces of the single- walledcarbonnanotubes ... thickness was controlled by the numbers of the ALD cycles A typical deposition consists of 80 cycles For ALD of alumina (AlxOy), trimethylaluminum [Al(CH3)3] and water were used as aluminum and oxygen...
... (G band) [22] The D band is attributed to a disordered graphite structure or sp -hybridized carbons of the nanotubes, whereas the G band corresponds to a splitting of the E g stretching mode of ... 35:837 14 Jin J, Dong Z, He J, Li R, Ma J: Synthesisof novel porphyrin and its complexes covalently linked to multi -walled carbonnanotubesand study of their spectroscopy Nanoscale Res Lett 2009, ... Functionalization of single- walledcarbonnanotubes with well-defined polystyrene by “click” coupling J Am Chem Soc 2005, 127:14518 18 Leu CM, Chang YT, Wei KH: Synthesisand dielectric properties of polyimide...
... flow [47] The reflections at 2h = 11 and 21° are -201/200/001 and 020 of the c form, respectively, and the reflections at 2h = *20 and 23° are 200 and 002 of the a form, respectively [47] The nanocomposite ... the aromatic amine functionalized multi -walled nanotubes (F-MWNTs) and an in situ polymerization method for the preparation of welldispersed nanocomposites and nanofibers The F-MWNT was functionalized ... P-MWNT/ nylon-6 were dissolved in formic acid [37] The solutions of the composites were sonicated in formic acid for h in order to accelerate homogeneous dispersion of the MWNTs The prepared solutions...
... Interaction, Empa, St Gallen, Switzerland and Sandra Frank from the Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland We also acknowledge Kirsten Clift for proofreading the manuscript This ... Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Materials Biology Interactions, St Gallen, Switzerland 2Institute of Anatomy, Division of Histology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland ... design Page ofof the study and made substantial contributions to the analysis and interpretation of the data HFK and PG made substantial contributions to the analysis and interpretation of the data...
... Abbreviations Preface and target of the work Chapter Introduction to carbonnanotubes material 1.1 Brief history ofcarbon canotubes 1.2 Geometry ofcarbonnanotubes 1.3 Syntheses ofcarbon canotubes ... modulus and tensile strength combined with the low weight and fiber-like form make nanotubes enticing candidates for composite 26 reinforcement Compositesofnanotubes are based on dispersing nanotubes ... growing carbonnanotubes 31 2.1.2 Synthesisofcarbonnanotubes 31 2.2 Investigation methods 35 2.2.1 Electron microscope 35 2.2.2 Raman spectroscopy ofcarbonnanotubes 38 2.2.3 Xray diffraction of...
... nanoflows and is instructive for understanding the coupling effect of the size and the temperature at the nanoscale Abbreviations LJ: Lennard-Jones; MD: molecular dynamics; SWCNTs: single- walled ... Science and Technology, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China Authors contributions HZ and HY conceived and designed this work HY and ZZ performed the MD simulations HY, YZ and ZZ collected and ... Hydrophobic Channel of a Carbon Nanotube Nature 2001, 414:188 Holt JK: CarbonNanotubesand Nanofluidic Transport Adv Mater 2009, 21:3542 Hanaski I, Yonebayashi T, Kawano S: Molecular dynamics of a water...
... minima Abbreviations CNTs: carbon nanotubes; MWCNTs: multi -walled carbon nanotubes; PMMA: poly(methyl methacrylate); SWCNTs: single- walledcarbon nanotubes; THF: tetrahydrofuran; XTEM: cross-sectional ... curves evidence that the maxima and minima of the conductance appear at the same voltages for both temperatures, namely, 15 and 25 mV for the maxima and 20 and 30 mV for the minima on both polarities ... was further performed to remove totally the silicon nitride and the nanotubes at one end of the sample, for exposing the bottom electrode Finally, the top electrode of 10 nm Cr and μm Al layers...
... SWCNT bandgap and can be enhanced by selecting a semiconducting SWCNT with smaller diameter and large bandgap In our previous work [15, 17], we obtained devices with low contact resistance and large ... and large ON/OFF ratio, with the same fabrication process used for the samples discussed here Because we use nanotubes with a small bandgap, we can test memory device properties for the same ... very different values of ON/OFF ratio, i.e smaller ON/OFF ratio at room temperature or larger ON/OFF ratio at low temperature Indeed, at low temperature (red circles), the ON/OFF ratio increases...
... structure and electronic properties of single- walledcarbonnanotubes Nature, 391(6662), 62–64 Santos, C.V., Hernandez, A.L.M., Fisher, F.T., Ruoff, R & Castano, V.M (2003) Improvement of thermal and ... stability and reversible controlof conductivity both by charge-transfer doping and protonation.8 The use of PANI together with CNTs to form nanocomposites could result in the formation of ternary ... oxidation state of emaraldine salt of PANI.15 The strong band around 1141 cm–1 is the characteristic peak of PANI conductivity and is a measure of the degree of the delocalisation of electrons.14...
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