... properties of the nanotubes The symmetry groups for carbonnanotubes can be either symmorphic [such as armchair (n,n)and zigzag Physicsofcarbonnanotubes 29 Table Parameters ofcarbonnanotubes ... progress in research on carbonnanotubes and related materials 'The birth of the field ofcarbonnanotubes is marked by the publication by Iijima of the observation of multi-walled nanotubes with outer ... of the method is studied in detail The elimination of amorphous carbon is also investigated INTRODUCTION The catalytic growth of graphitic carbon nanofibers during the decomposition of hydrocarbons...
... properties of the nanotubes The symmetry groups for carbonnanotubes can be either symmorphic [such as armchair (n,n)and zigzag Physicsofcarbonnanotubes 29 Table Parameters ofcarbonnanotubes ... progress in research on carbonnanotubes and related materials 'The birth of the field ofcarbonnanotubes is marked by the publication by Iijima of the observation of multi-walled nanotubes with outer ... of the method is studied in detail The elimination of amorphous carbon is also investigated INTRODUCTION The catalytic growth of graphitic carbon nanofibers during the decomposition of hydrocarbons...
... properties of the nanotubes The symmetry groups for carbonnanotubes can be either symmorphic [such as armchair (n,n)and zigzag Physicsofcarbonnanotubes 29 Table Parameters ofcarbonnanotubes ... progress in research on carbonnanotubes and related materials 'The birth of the field ofcarbonnanotubes is marked by the publication by Iijima of the observation of multi-walled nanotubes with outer ... of the method is studied in detail The elimination of amorphous carbon is also investigated INTRODUCTION The catalytic growth of graphitic carbon nanofibers during the decomposition of hydrocarbons...
... properties of the nanotubes The symmetry groups for carbonnanotubes can be either symmorphic [such as armchair (n,n)and zigzag Physicsofcarbonnanotubes 29 Table Parameters ofcarbonnanotubes ... progress in research on carbonnanotubes and related materials 'The birth of the field ofcarbonnanotubes is marked by the publication by Iijima of the observation of multi-walled nanotubes with outer ... of the method is studied in detail The elimination of amorphous carbon is also investigated INTRODUCTION The catalytic growth of graphitic carbon nanofibers during the decomposition of hydrocarbons...
... sensor response, and times of adsorption/desorption of screenprinted and dip-coated films sensing a flux of 150 mL of N2 with a charge of 1% NH3 Material Fig Optical properties of: (a) dip-coated films, ... size of titania symbols are representative of the lack (white) or abundance (yellow) of Ti3+ states and of the crystallite size obtained by XRD; the size of the arrows illustrate the magnitude of ... the identification of small changes in the patterns of the composite films; the narrower and more symmetric shape of the MWCNT peak at 2Â = 26◦ indicates the lost of amorphous carbon after functionalization...
... top It can also be stated that the edges of the Figure STM images of the edges of the graphene islands (a) 23 × 23 nm2 STM image of a monolayer on top of the (3 × 3) SiCreconstructed surface This ... -1 comes from the breakdown of the wavevector selection rule and reveals the presence of crystalline defects inside or at the edges of FLG flakes The in-plane size of the crystallites can be deduced ... http://www.nanoscalereslett.com/content/6/1/171 Page of (a) (b) (c) (d) Figure STM images of a 6H-SiC(000-1) sample after graphitization (same sample as in figure 1) (a) 300 × 300 nm2 STM image of few layers of graphene grown...
... Thermal conductivity ofcarbonnanotubes Nanotechnology 2000, 11:65-69 30 Padgett CW, Brenner DW: Influence of chemisorption on the thermal conductivity of single-wall carbonnanotubes Nano Lett ... dynamics of singlewalled carbonnanotubes Phys Rev B 2003, 67:045413 33 Esfarjani K, Zebarjadi M, Kawazoe Y: Thermoelectric properties of a nanocontact made of two-capped single-wall carbonnanotubes ... thermoelectric properties of a series of zigzag and chiral carbonnanotubes which exhibit interesting diameter and chirality dependence Our calculated results indicate that these carbonnanotubes could...
... properties ofcarbonnanotubes 1.1.3 Applications ofcarbonnanotubes 1.2 Motivation 1.3 Objective and scope of work 11 1.4 Layout of the thesis 13 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Buckling of CNTs ... achiral carbonnanotubes The latter comprises of both zigzag and armchair carbonnanotubes This categorization is done based on the orientation of carbon- carbon (C-C) bonds Orientation of C-C ... the shape of a cylinder Depending on the geometry of CNT, the following categories of CNT can be found Single-walled and multi-walled carbonnanotubes CNTs as single-walled carbonnanotubes (SWNTs)...
... Background 1.2 CarbonNanotubes 1.2.1 Discovery ofCarbonNanotubes 1.2.2 Bonding Structures ofCarbonNanotubes 1.2.3 Properties ofCarbonNanotubes 1.2.4 Applications ofCarbonNanotubes 2 13 ... through these years ii Table of Contents Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT I III VII LIST OF TABLES IX LIST OF FIGURES X LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS LIST OF SYMBOLS XV XVII CHAPTER ... CarbonNanotubes 4.3.2 Catalytic Growth Mechanism ofCarbonNanotubes 4.3.3 Function of Metal Catalyst in CNT Growth 4.3.4 Growth Rate ofCarbonNanotubes with Fe Catalyst 56 56 60 62 66 4.4 Summary...
... constant, Ø is the emission mass, barrier height of the emitter F is the local field, ε0 is the permittivity of free space, emitters, 21 Chapter Physicsof Field Emission and t(y) and υ(y) are the ... electrons so as to enhance the FE performance of the semiconductors 23 Chapter Physicsof Field Emission Fig 2.3 Energy band bending near the surface of a semiconductor induced by the external electrical ... space charge effects, overheating of the emitter tips or the low concentration of the carriers in the tips, conduction band of semiconductors [15-17] FE properties of semiconductors could on 17]...
... spectrum of a mixture of elements is approximately the sum of the peaks of the individual constituents Generally, identification of chemical states can be made from exact measurements of peak ... representing the order of diffraction, λ is the wavelength, d is the interplanar spacing of the reflecting (diffracting) plane, and θ is the angle of the incidence and of the diffraction of the radiation ... The use of a magnetic field in the magnetrons behind the metal target is capable of trapping electrons near cathode such that the plasma density will be much higher, often by an order of magnitude...
... covered with amorphous carbon, which is the product of the thermal deposition of hydrocarbon [3] 52 Chapter Synthesis of Vertically-Aligned CarbonNanotubes In terms of other CNT growth approaches, ... Schematic setup of the PECVD system used 55 Chapter Synthesis of Vertically-Aligned CarbonNanotubes 4.3 Results and Discussion 4.3.1 Characterization of the As-Grown CarbonNanotubes Fig 4.2 ... the hollow part of Fig 4.4 TEM images of the as-grown CNTs obtained with Fe catalyst 58 Chapter Synthesis of Vertically-Aligned CarbonNanotubes the nanotube that a few layers of graphene sheets...
... Emission Study of Hydrogenated Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Coated CarbonNanotubes Core-Shell Nanostructures neighbors giving rise to three-dimensional interconnected structure ofcarbon atoms ... the binding energy (BE) of 284.5 and 285.2 eV confirm a high sp3 content of 126 Chapter Field Emission Study of Hydrogenated Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Coated CarbonNanotubes Core-Shell Nanostructures ... (eV) Fig 6.5 Carbon 1s core level XPS spectrum confirms high sp3 content of the DLC films 127 Chapter Field Emission Study of Hydrogenated Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Coated CarbonNanotubes Core-Shell...
... Study of Hydrogenated Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Coated CarbonNanotubes Core-Shell Nanostructures of the pristine CNTs Hence, it is reasonable to assume that the coated tips of these nanotubes ... flat and the average diameter of these nanotubes is comparable to that 136 Chapter Field Emission Study of Hydrogenated Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Coated CarbonNanotubes Core-Shell Nanostructures ... Study of Hydrogenated Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Coated CarbonNanotubes Core-Shell Nanostructures with the increase of ambient temperature during emission process, the work function of the...
... Emission Study of Hydrogenated Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Coated CarbonNanotubes Core-Shell Nanostructures 6.4.2 FE Properties of the Hydrogenated Composite Emitters The FE J-E curves of the pristine ... Chapter Field Emission Study of Hydrogenated Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Coated CarbonNanotubes Core-Shell Nanostructures Fig 6.15 Carbon 1s core level XPS spectra of the (a) 50 nm ta C coated ... Carbon Coated CarbonNanotubes Core-Shell Nanostructures performance of the emitters and there exists an optimum thickness of the ta-C coating film, i.e., 50 nm in this case With the change of...
... characteristics of tetrahedral amorphous carbon coated carbonnanotubes Journal of Physical Chemistry C (Accepted) Jun Yu, Kuan He Choo, Lifang Niu, and Daniel H C Chua “Synthesis of three-dimensional ... of amorphous carbon films containing nano-graphene clusters” Submitted to Applied Physics Letters H Y Wang, Z Tan, J Yu, and Daniel H C Chua “Enhancement of field emission by coating carbonnanotubes ... List of Publications J Yu, C H Sow, Andrew T S Wee, and Daniel H C Chua “Enhanced field emission of vertically-aligned core-shell carbonnanotubes with molybdenum oxide encapsulation” Journal of...
... single wall carbonnanotubesCarbon 2002, 40:2043-2061 24 Deng F, Zheng QS, Wang LF: Effects of anisotropy, aspect ratio, and nonstraightness ofcarbonnanotubes on thermal conductivity ofcarbon ... properties of the system Thus, we aimed at studying the effect of two types of carbon- based nanofillers, in particular, nanotubes and graphene sheets, on the thermal conductivity of an uncured ... indicate that MWNTs are the most effective carbon nanofillers to improve the K of liquid resins Indeed, the K of the nanofluids gradually increased as a function of MWNT content, reaching a 70% improvement...
... chromatographically purified, giving rise to many kinds of new crystalline carbon phases [3] In the case ofcarbon nanotubes, existence of many kinds ofnanotubes in various samples has also been confirmed ... role of essential importance in the field ofcarbonnanotubes as will be reviewed in this chapter, in which an overview of theories applied to carbonnanotubes is presented and the advantages of ... Saito Fig Carbonnanotubes There are two kinds of achiral nanotubes called ‘‘zigzag nanotubes ’ (left) and ‘‘armchair nanotubes ’ (center) The remaining nanotubes are called ‘‘chiral nanotubes ’...
... energy of singlewalled carbonnanotubes Appl Phys Lett 1999, 16:2307-2309 Peigney A, Laurent C, Flahaut E, Bacsa RR, Rousset A: Specific surface area ofcarbonnanotubes and bundles ofcarbonnanotubes ... applications of single walled carbonnanotubes Curr Med Chem 2010, 17:10-24 Ito Y, Venkatesan N, Hirako N, Sugioka N, Takada K: Effect of fiber length ofcarbonnanotubes on the absorption of erythropoietin ... separation ofcarbonnanotubes Nat Mater 2003, 2:338-342 Kim O-K, Je J, Baldwin JW, Kooi S, Pehrsson PE: Solubilization of single-wall carbonnanotubes by supramolecular encapsulation of helical...
... 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 ... 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 and metal catalysts ... 1550–1600 cm-1 region of spectrum is due to the tangential C–C stretching of SWCNT carbon atoms [25] The ID/IG value of the TMPBA-g-SWCNT was 1.3, which was much lower than 5.0 of the PPA treated...