Carbon Nanotube Sensor Networks

The development of carbon nanotube transmitter and receiver circuits operating with radio frequency (RF) allows current wireless technologies to function at nano-scale environments. This vision also enables a very large set of new applications such as coordinated disease detection, drug delivery, and biological and chemical attack defense. Especially, coordinated nanoscale data acquisition is one of the most promising functions in the nanotechnology applications. In this paper, we define the concept of Carbon Nanotube Sensor Networks (CNSN) for future nanoscale data acquisition applications. CNSN can be perceived as the down-scaled version of traditional wireless sensor networks without downgrading its main functionalities. The objective of this work is to introduce this novel and interdisciplinary research field and highlight major barriers toward its realization.