Tags: carbon nanotubes

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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. HARISH A RAO

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  2. Bhaskar Saikia

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  4. Davood Askari

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  5. Wei Shen

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  6. Direct mechanical measurement of the tensile strength and elastic modulus of multiwalled carbon nanotubes

    07 Oct 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk, Y.M. Wang, J. Cumings, M. Hetman, W. Han, A. Zettl. R. O. Ritchie

    This work represents the first in-situ measurenment of the tensile strength of a carbon nanotuube.

  7. In-situ carbon nanotube tensile test

    07 Oct 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Demczyk

    This represents the first in-situ tensile test observed in a transmission electron microscope.

  8. BME 695L Lecture 5: Nanomaterials for Core Design

    03 Oct 2011 | | Contributor(s):: James Leary

    See references below for related reading.5.1      Introduction5.1.1    core building blocks5.1.2    functional cores5.1.3    functionalizing the core surface5.2      Ferric...

  9. HIMADRI PANDEY

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  10. Abu Raihan

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  11. Tutorial 2: Thermal Transport Across Interfaces - Electrons

    16 Aug 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Timothy S Fisher

    Outline:Thermal boundary resistanceElectronic transportReal interfaces and measurementsCarbon nanotube interfaces

  12. Lourdu Deepak

    Hi friends, Currently i'm doing my master in VLSI design, and looking forward to a project in Nano electronics which is totally related to nano fabrication and nano FINFETs and all other explained...

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  13. Heeyuen Koh

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  14. Mark Ellison

    B.S. in Chemistry from the University of PittsburghPh.D. in Chemistry from Stanford UniversityPostdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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  15. What simulation for simulating CNTFET as biosensor applications ?

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    I used simulator such as fettoy and moscnt for device simulation. However, I tried to find a mechanism for utilizing the CNTFET Fettoy as biosensor by relation the permittivity of the Gate Oxide...

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  16. Nanodays - Space—Lab on Chip Technology: The final frontier

    18 May 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Marshall Porterfield

  17. Bagavathi Shivakumar

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  18. NanoDays - Artificial Photosynthesis with Biomimetic Nanomaterials: Self-Repairing Solar Cells

    05 May 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Jong Hyun Choi

  19. Putting the Electron’s Spin to Work

    14 Apr 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Daniel Ralph

    I will discuss recent progress in experimental techniques to control the orientations of nanoscale magnetic moments and electron spins, and to use these new means of control for applications. One powerful new capability arises from the fact that thin magnetic layers can act as filters for spins.

  20. Stick2D

    28 Feb 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Jiantong Li

    A Monte Carlo simulator to study percolation characteristics of two-dimensional stick systems