Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotube on top of four gold electrodes
See also:
Module 4 – Molecular Electronics

High-density carbon nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) grown by chemical vapour deposition from microcontact printed catalysts. A high-density of uniform and very long CNTs can be obtained (Picture: Michel Calame, Zuqin Liu and Christian Schönenberger)

Towers
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) forming "towers"

Growing of carbon nanotubes

Tip of a multiwalled carbon nanotube

Spiral Nanotubes

Growing of carbon nanotubes

CNT on a cantilever tip
Scanning electron-microscopy (SEM) image of a carbon nanotube (CNT) attached to a cantilever tip

Model of a bucky ball (fulleren) and carbon nanotubes

Physics of Charge Transport in Carbon Nanotubes
See also: nanonews January 2006





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