Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes

MS Dresselhaus, G Dresselhaus, R Saito, A Jorio - Physics reports, 2005 - Elsevier
The use of Raman spectroscopy to reveal the remarkable structure and the unusual
electronic and phonon properties of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is reviewed …

Progress towards monodisperse single-walled carbon nanotubes

MC Hersam - Nature nanotechnology, 2008 - nature.com
The defining characteristic of a nanomaterial is that its properties vary as a function of its
size. This size dependence can be clearly observed in single-walled carbon nanotubes …

Sorting carbon nanotubes by electronic structure using density differentiation

MS Arnold, AA Green, JF Hulvat, SI Stupp… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
The heterogeneity of as-synthesized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) precludes
their widespread application in electronics, optics and sensing. We report on the sorting of …

Curved Pi-Conjugation, Aromaticity, and the Related Chemistry of Small Fullerenes (<C60) and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

X Lu, Z Chen - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
The successive discoveries of fullerenes1 and carbon nanotubes2 (CNTs) around 1990
triggered a hot wave of scientific research to explore the properties and applications of these …

Enrichment of single-walled carbon nanotubes by diameter in density gradients

MS Arnold, SI Stupp, MC Hersam - Nano letters, 2005 - ACS Publications
The bulk enrichment and separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) by
diameter has been achieved through ultracentrifugation of DNA-wrapped SWNTs in …

Linking catalyst composition to chirality distributions of as-grown single-walled carbon nanotubes by tuning NixFe1−x nanoparticles

WH Chiang, R Mohan Sankaran - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
Chirally pure single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are required for various
applications ranging from nanoelectronics to nanomedicine. Although significant efforts …

Large-scale separation of metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

Y Maeda, S Kimura, M Kanda… - Journal of the …, 2005 - ACS Publications
In the applications of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), it is extremely important to
separate semiconducting and metallic SWNTs. Although several methods have been …

Preferential syntheses of semiconducting vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes for direct use in FETs

L Qu, F Du, L Dai - Nano letters, 2008 - ACS Publications
We have combined fast heating with plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD)
for preferential growth of semiconducting vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes …

Computational study of B-or N-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes as NH3 and NO2 sensors

L Bai, Z Zhou - Carbon, 2007 - Elsevier
The adsorption of NH3 and NO2 in B-or N-doped (10, 0) single-walled carbon nanotubes
(SWCNTs) was investigated by using density functional computations to exploit their …

Proteins and carbon nanotubes: close encounter in water

D Nepal, KE Geckeler - Small, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The interactions between biological substances and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their
effect on the nanotubes are of significant importance in this emerging era of …