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Investigation Of Electrical Transport In Hydrogenated Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes, Adam L. Friedman, Hyunkyung Chun, Don Heiman, Yung Joon Jung, Latika Menon Apr 2012

Investigation Of Electrical Transport In Hydrogenated Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes, Adam L. Friedman, Hyunkyung Chun, Don Heiman, Yung Joon Jung, Latika Menon

Donald Heiman

Highly disordered multiwalled carbon nanotubes of large outer diameter (~60 nm) fabricated by means of chemical vapor deposition process inside porous alumina templates exhibit ferromagnetism when annealed in a H2/Ar atmosphere. In the presence of an applied magnetic field, there is a transition from positive to negative magnetoresistance. The transition may be explained in terms of the Bright model for ordered and disordered carbon structures. Additionally, temperature dependent electrical transport experiments exhibit a zero-bias anomaly at low temperature.


Scalable Nanotemplate Assisted Directed Assembly Of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes For Nanoscale Devices, Prashanth Makaram, Sivasubramanian Somu, Xugang Xiong, Ahmed A. Busnaina, Yung-Joon Jung, Nicol E. Mcgruer Apr 2012

Scalable Nanotemplate Assisted Directed Assembly Of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes For Nanoscale Devices, Prashanth Makaram, Sivasubramanian Somu, Xugang Xiong, Ahmed A. Busnaina, Yung-Joon Jung, Nicol E. Mcgruer

Sivasubramanian Somu

The authors demonstrate precise alignment and controlled assembly of single wall nanotube (SWNT) bundles at a fast rate over large areas by combining electrophoresis and dip coating processes. SWNTs in solution are assembled on prepatterned features that are 80 nm wide and separated by 200 nm. The results show that the direction of substrate withdrawal significantly affects the orientation and alignment of the assembled SWNT bundles. I-V characterization is carried out to demonstrate electrical continuity of these assembled SWNT bundles.


Mox/Cnts Hetero-Structures For Gas Sensing Applications: Role Of Cnts Defects, G. Neri, S. G. Leonardi, N. Donato, C. Marichy, Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, M.-G. Willinger, Kyeong-Hwan Lee, N. Pinna Jan 2012

Mox/Cnts Hetero-Structures For Gas Sensing Applications: Role Of Cnts Defects, G. Neri, S. G. Leonardi, N. Donato, C. Marichy, Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, M.-G. Willinger, Kyeong-Hwan Lee, N. Pinna

Jean-Philippe Tessonnier

The preparation, characterization and sensing properties of CNT composites with a thin metal oxide (MOx) surface layer is presented. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) was applied for the coating of the inner and outer CNTs walls with thin films of ZnO and SnO2 of precisely controlled thicknesses. Differently treated CNTs with different degree of surface functionalization were used as support for the oxide films. The sensing properties of the obtained composite materials towards NO2 were investigated and related to the morphological and microstructural characteristics of both the coating and support. SnO2-based composites on CNTs treated at 700 °C show enhanced performance …


Chemically Modified Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Mwcnts) With Anchored Acidic Groups, Nuruzatulifah Bt Asari Mansor, Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Ali Rinaldi, Sylvia Reiche, M. G. Kutty Jan 2012

Chemically Modified Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Mwcnts) With Anchored Acidic Groups, Nuruzatulifah Bt Asari Mansor, Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Ali Rinaldi, Sylvia Reiche, M. G. Kutty

Jean-Philippe Tessonnier

Surface functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) was carried out using a gas phase treatment in a Universal Temperature Program (UTP) reactor by flowing SO 3 gas onto the CNTs while being heated at different temperatures. The functionalized nanotubes were characterized using X-ray Fluorescence (XRF), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) and Raman spectroscopy. The amount of oxyen and sulfur containing groups was determined by acid-base titration. The titration results were in good agreement with elemental analysis using X-ray fluorescence. FTIR analysis showed the presence of oxygen and sulfur containing groups, S=O, C-S, C=O and-COOH. Raman spectroscopy confirmed that oxygen and …