Tags: carbon nanotubes

Description

100 amps of electricity crackle in a vacuum chamber, creating a spark that transforms carbon vapor into tiny structures. Depending on the conditions, these structures can be shaped like little, 60-atom soccer balls, or like rolled-up tubes of atoms, arranged in a chicken-wire pattern, with rounded ends. These tiny, carbon nanotubes, discovered by Sumio Iijima at NEC labs in 1991, have amazing properties. They are 100 times stronger than steel, but weigh only one-sixth as much. They are incredibly resilient under physical stress; even when kinked to a 120-degree angle, they will bounce back to their original form, undamaged. And they can carry electrical current at levels that would vaporize ordinary copper wires.

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  1. BNC Research Review: Carbon Nanotubes as Nucleic Acid Carriers

    04 Jun 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Don Bergstrom

    This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.

  2. Boltzmann Transport Simulator for CNTs

    20 Feb 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Zlatan Aksamija, Umberto Ravaioli

    Simulate Electron transport in Single-walled carbon nanotubes using an upwinding discretization of the Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation time approximation.

  3. Buckypaper

    16 Apr 2013 | | Contributor(s):: shaheen goel

    the presentation gives a basic idea about the buckypaper and give breif details about the synthesis properties and applications of buckypaper

  4. Carbon Nanotechnology: Scientific and Technological Issues

    24 Feb 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Joe Lyding

    Carbon nanotechnologies based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and graphene (a single atomic layer of graphite) are being pursued for a wide range of technological applications ranging from chemical sensing to post-silicon nanoelectronics. A common thread is the need to atomistically...

  5. Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Pulmonary Toxicity Data Set

    13 Mar 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Jeremy M Gernand

    This data set contains the collected in vivo pulmonary toxicity results contained in 18 published studies conducted between 2004 and 2011 with single- and multi-walled carbon nanotubes. These data include characterization measurements of the CNT samples as well as observed animal toxic responses...

  6. Carbon nanotube bandstructure

    09 Apr 2010 | | Contributor(s):: Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck

    Carbon nanotubes are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure, and can be categorized into single-walled nanotubes (SWNT) and multi-walled nanotubes (MWNT). These cylindrical carbon molecules have novel properties that make them potentially useful in many nanotechnology applications,...

  7. Carbon Nanotube Counter

    08 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Quinn Lennemann

    Carbon Nanotube Counter (CNT Counter) is a program that can count the density of Carbon Nanotubes in microscope scans. The program supports JPEG and TIFF images from both Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs) and Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs). This program contains both an automatic mode and a...

  8. Carbon Nanotube Electronics: Modeling, Physics, and Applications

    28 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Jing Guo

    In recent years, significant progress in understanding the physics of carbon nanotube electronic devices and in identifying potential applications has occurred. In a nanotube, low bias transport can be nearly ballistic across distances of several hundred nanometers. Deposition of high-k gate...

  9. Carbon Nanotube Electronics: Modeling, Physics, and Applications

    30 Oct 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Jing Guo

    In recent years, significant progress in understanding the physics of carbon nanotube electronic devices and in identifying potential applications has occurred. In a nanotube, low bias transport can be nearly ballistic across distances of several hundred nanometers. Deposition of high-κ...

  10. Carbon Nanotube Fracture

    27 May 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Christine M Aikens, George C. Schatz, Marcelo Carignano

    Due to their mechanical properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) hold promise as nanoreinforcements in a variety of composites. As a result, numerous theoretical and experimental studies have been performed in order to understand the behavior of CNTs under axial tension. Whereas quantum mechanical...

  11. Carbon Nanotube Relay

    01 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Sansiri Tanachutiwat, wei wang

    CNT NEMS as mechanical relay for memory applications

  12. Carbon Nanotube Worksheet

    01 Apr 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Tanya Faltens

    This worksheet is made to be used with the CNT Bands tool in nanoHUB.  (https://nanohub.org/tools/cntbands-ext) Students identify armchair, zig-zag and chiral CNTs based on CNT geometry. Students identify semiconducting and metallic CNTs based on their energy band diagrams.  ...

  13. Carbon Nanotubes Interconnect Analyzer (CNIA)

    14 Mar 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Sansiri Tanachutiwat, Wei Wang

    Analyze performances of carbon nanotube bundle interconnects

  14. Carbon NanoTubes: Structure - Properties - Applications

    18 Mar 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Yuri A Kruglyak

    Presentation slides for seminar given for students of Faculty of Computer Sciences of Odessa State Environmental University, Ukraine by Prof. Yuri Kruglyak on May 22, 2008.

  15. Carbon-Based Nanoswitch Logic

    21 Mar 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Stephen A. Campbell

    This talk discusses a rather surprising possibility: the use of carbon-based materials such as carbon nanotubes and grapheneto make nanomechanical switches with at least an order of magnitude lower power dissipation than the low power CMOS options and performance between the various CMOS...

  16. Carrier Statistics Lab: First-Time User Guide

    05 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Abhijeet Paul, Gerhard Klimeck, Benjamin P Haley, Saumitra Raj Mehrotra

    This first-time user guide is an introduction to the Carrier Statistics Lab . It provides basic definitions, guidance on how to run the tool, and suggested exercises to help users get accustomed to the idea of distribution functions as well as how these functions are used in determining the...

  17. Chemically Enhanced Carbon-Based Nanomaterials and Devices

    25 Oct 2010 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Hersam

    Carbon-based nanomaterials have attracted significant attention due to their potential to enable and/or improve applications such as transistors, transparent conductors, solar cells, batteries, and biosensors. This talk will delineate chemical strategies for enhancing the electronic and optical...

  18. CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology: a nanoFPGA-related study

    04 Apr 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Wei Wang

    Dr. Wei Wang received his PhD degree in 2002 from Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2002 to 2004, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada....

  19. CNT Creating Python script

    05 Jul 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Saksham Soni

    It can work through running python script directly on PC without using Internet . Just you download and install NanoTCAD ViDES and then we can simulate CNT and GNR without using nanohub or internet.

  20. CNT Heterojunction Modeler

    20 Mar 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Joe Ringgenberg, Joydeep Bhattacharjee, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey C Grossman

    Study the structure and electronic properties of carbon nanotubes with linear heterojunctions.