Effect of channel length on the electrical response of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors to deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization

• Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan,
• Jianing An,
• Yani Zhang,
• Chee How Wong and
• Lianxi Zheng

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2081–2091, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.217

• those shortcomings. Therefore, attention has shifted towards the use of nanowires and nanotubes for cost-effective, sequence-selective and label-free electrical detection without the use of the PCR for rapid measurement [7]. Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are excellent one

Chemi- vs physisorption in the radical functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes under microwaves

• Victor Mamane,
• Guillaume Mercier,
• Junidah Abdul Shukor,
• Jérôme Gleize,
• Aziz Azizan,
• Yves Fort and
• Brigitte Vigolo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 537–545, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.63

• the functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) by the diazonium method was studied. The usage of a new approach led to the identification of the strength of the interaction (physical or chemical) between the functional groups and the carbon nanotube surface. Moreover, the nature

• grafted functions. Experimental Reagents. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were obtained by means of a home-made reactor using conventional experimental conditions [37]. SWNTs are used without any purification process because common purification treatments may introduce additional defects on the

Functionalization of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

• Eloise Van Hooijdonk,
• Carla Bittencourt,
• Rony Snyders and
• Jean-François Colomer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 129–152, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.14

• encased one in another in a coaxial way and are called multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) [1], or they consist of a single layer and are categorized as single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) [2]. SWCNTs are generally assembled in two-dimensional, compact, wide ropes called bundles [3]. The structure

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

• performance of thin films of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) was studied with respect to the properties of both individual nanotubes and their bundles. The SWCNTs were synthesized in a hot wire generator aerosol reactor, collected by gas filtration and dry-transferred onto various substrates. By thus

• : 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

Conducting composite materials from the biopolymer kappa-carrageenan and carbon nanotubes

• Ali Aldalbahi,
• Jin Chu,
• Peter Feng and
• Marc in het Panhuis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 415–427, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.48

• nanotubes (MWNTs) produced by catalytic chemical vapour deposition were obtained from Nanocyl S.A. (Belgium, lot # 090901). Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), produced by high-pressure decomposition of carbon monoxide (HiPCO process), were purchased from Unidym Inc. (USA, lot # P0348). Glycerin was

Glassy carbon electrodes modified with multiwalled carbon nanotubes for the determination of ascorbic acid by square-wave voltammetry

• Sushil Kumar and
• Victoria Vicente-Beckett

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 388–396, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.45

• , consistent with the observation of Fei et al. [15], who used CV at a GCE modified with a composite film of single-walled carbon nanotubes and dihexadecyl hydrogen phosphate for the determination of ascorbic acid concentration and reported a negative shift of up to 468 mV. Table 1 shows that the calibration

How to remove the influence of trace water from the absorption spectra of SWNTs dispersed in ionic liquids

• Juan Yang,
• Daqi Zhang and
• Yan Li

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 653–658, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.69

• , China 10.3762/bjnano.2.69 Abstract Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) can be efficiently dispersed in the imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs), at relatively high concentration, with their intrinsic structure and properties retained. Due to the hygroscopicity of the ILs, water bands may be

• spectrum. This result makes it more convenient to characterize SWNTs with absorption spectra in the IL-dispersion system, even in the presence of trace amount of water. Keywords: absorption spectra; ionic liquids; quantitative analysis; single-walled carbon nanotubes; Introduction The so-called room

• electrochemistry [4][5], and chemical reactions and separations [6][7][8][9]. In 2003, Fukushima et al. [10] found that by mixing together and mechanically grinding the single-walled carbon nanotubes with imidazolium-based ILs, a thermally stable bucky gel can be formed with SWNTs untangled from the heavily

Dynamics of capillary infiltration of liquids into a highly aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube film

• Sławomir Boncel,
• Krzysztof Z. Walczak and
• Krzysztof K. K. Koziol

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 311–317, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.36

• solubility parameters), respectively [31]. The Hildebrand solubility parameter for single-walled carbon nanotubes was estimated by plotting the nanotube dispersibility as a function of the Hansen solubility parameters for the solvents that were capable of infiltration. These solvents occupied a well-defined