Carbon Nanotubes and Their Applications (Jenny Stanford Series on Carbon-Based Nanomaterials Book 1)

This book overviews the current status of research and development activities of CNTs in nanodevices, nanomaterials, or nanofabrication. This book presents 15 state-of-the-art review articles that cover CNT synthesis technologies for growing highly orientated CNTs, chirality-pure CNTs and CNTs at a large throughput and low cost, CNT assembly techniques, CNT sorting and separation processes, CNT functionalization engineering for more functionalities, CNT fundamental properties and their practical/potential electrical, electronic, optical, mechanical, chemical and biological applications. Front Cover 1 Contents 10 Preface 6 1. Fundamental Properties of Carbon Nanotubes 20 2. Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes 50 3. Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes Toward Practical Applications 92 4. Separation of Metallic and Semiconducting Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes 140 5. Electronic Applications of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes 168 6. Carbon Electronics for High-Frequency Applications 222 7. From Bulk TFETs to CNT-TFETs: Status and Trends 240 8. Transistors Based on Carbon Nanotube Random Networks 270 9. Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Technology for Vacuum Electronic Device Applications 308 10. Novel Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes: Consistent with Ultrahigh Temperature Superconductivity 338 11. Carbon Nanotube-Based Biosensors 374 12. Carbon Nanotube-Based Gas Sensors: A State of the Art 434 13. Carbon Nanotubes and Their Composites for Viscoelastic Applications 460 14. Toward Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Fibers 486 15. Mechanical Applications of Carbon Nanotubes 520 16. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Their Applications 568