Carbon nanotubes and related nanomaterials: critical advances and challenges for synthesis toward mainstream commercial applications

R Rao, CL Pint, AE Islam, RS Weatherup, S Hofmann… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Advances in the synthesis and scalable manufacturing of single-walled carbon nanotubes
(SWCNTs) remain critical to realizing many important commercial applications. Here we …

Engineering hierarchical nanostructures by elastocapillary self‐assembly

M De Volder, AJ Hart - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Surfaces coated with nanoscale filaments such as silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes
are potentially compelling for high‐performance battery and capacitor electrodes …

Carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube structures used for temperature measurement

BF Monea, EI Ionete, SI Spiridon, D Ion-Ebrasu, E Petre - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Accurate measurement of temperatures with low power consumption with the highest
sensitivity and smallest possible elements is still a challenge. The thermal, electrical, and …

Strain-engineered manufacturing of freeform carbon nanotube microstructures

M De Volder, S Park, S Tawfick, AJ Hart - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
The skins of many plants and animals have intricate microscale surface features that give
rise to properties such as directed water repellency and adhesion, camouflage, and …

Nucleation, growth, and bundling of GaN nanowires in molecular beam epitaxy: Disentangling the origin of nanowire coalescence

VM Kaganer, S Fernandez-Garrido, P Dogan… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We investigate the nucleation, growth, and coalescence of spontaneously formed GaN
nanowires in molecular beam epitaxy combining the statistical analysis of scanning electron …

[BOOK][B] Handbook of less-common nanostructures

BI Kharisov, OV Kharissova, U Ortiz-Mendez - 2012 - books.google.com
As nanotechnology has developed over the last two decades, some nanostructures, such as
nanotubes, nanowires, and nanoparticles, have become very popular. However, recent …

Fabrication and electrical integration of robust carbon nanotube micropillars by self-directed elastocapillary densification

MFL De Volder, SJ Park, SH Tawfick… - Journal of …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT)'forest'microstructures fabricated by chemical
vapor deposition (CVD) using patterned catalyst films typically have a low CNT density per …

Mechanical coupling limits the density and quality of self-organized carbon nanotube growth

M Bedewy, AJ Hart - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) structures are promising for many applications; however, as-
grown CNT'forests' synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) are typically low …

Materials made of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotube forest

EG Rakov - Russian Chemical Reviews, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Publications concerning research on unique material made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
aligned perpendicular to the substrate surface, namely, CNT forest, are analyzed and …

Diameter-dependent kinetics of activation and deactivation in carbon nanotube population growth

M Bedewy, ER Meshot, AJ Hart - Carbon, 2012 - Elsevier
We reveal that the collective growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests by
chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is governed by the size-dependent catalytic behavior of …