Exploiting the hierarchical morphology of single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotube films for highly hydrophobic coatings

• Francesco De Nicola,
• Paola Castrucci,
• Manuela Scarselli,
• Francesca Nanni,
• Ilaria Cacciotti and
• Maurizio De Crescenzi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 353–360, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.34

• analysis (see Experimental section), we estimated the pore radius ρ and the bundle diameter d of the SWCNT and MWCNT random networks. The obtained results are reported in Table 1 together with the SWCNT microstructure area S and height h. However, in the case of MWCNT films, no microstructures were

• ) and analyzed in order to measure carbon nanotube bundle diameter, network pore, and microstructure feature (height and area) distributions. A statistical analysis of these quantities was performed and the values reported in Table 1 were estimated by taking the quantity distribution mode values and

Influence of the diameter of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles on the optoelectronic performance of dry-deposited thin films

• Kimmo Mustonen,
• Toma Susi,
• Antti Kaskela,
• Patrik Laiho,
• Ying Tian,
• Albert G. Nasibulin and
• Esko I. Kauppinen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 692–702, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.79

• : bundle diameter; sheet resistance; SWCNT; thin film; transmittance; Introduction Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) offer great application potential in future electronics, such as micro-electromechanical devices [1], sensors [2][3], transparent electrodes [4][5][6], thin-film field-effect

• nongeometric factors (i.e., junction resistances or contact barriers), the data can be normalized by eliminating the contributions of variations in bundle diameter and length. According to the Beer–Lambert law, for films of a given thickness (d), absorbance (A) depends linearly on the concentration (C) of

• resistive properties of the junctions. Given that the average bundle length, Lbundle, and the average number density of bundles in the network, ρbundle, remain constant, the average bundle diameter, dbundle, dictates the total concentration of carbon. This is best depicted by the illustration in Figure 8