In this work, copper micropillars and copper-carbon nanotube (CNT) composite micropillars were fabricated by incorporating an electrodeposition technique with a xurography process. In order to disperse carbon nanotubes in copper-CNT micropillars, various amounts of CNTs were added to the electroplating bath. Surface morphology and phase characterization of copper micropillars and copper-CNT com...

Hartree-Fock ~HF! and density functional theory calculations indicate that a ~4,0! carbon nanotube ~CNT! of sub-0.4-nm diameter is stable and its heat of formation is close to that of the stable C36 (D6h). Semiempirical molecular-orbital calculation shows that such narrow tubular structure is more stable than the corresponding opened fragment in the innermost zone of a large CNT. Simulated TEM ...

Growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests is highly sensitive to the nature of the substrate. This constraint narrows the range of available materials to just a few oxide-based dielectrics and presents a major obstacle for applications. Using a suspended monolayer, we show here that graphene is an excellent conductive substrate for CNT forest growth. Furthermore, graphene is sh...

In this paper at first a brief review of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is given and then an extensive survey of CNTFET (carbon nanotube field effect transistor) based logic circuits are discussed with the most recently reported CNTFET logic circuits. Keywords— MOSFETs, technology scaling, CNTFETs, carbon nanotubes (CNT), chiriality.

While there have been numerous reports on the electromechanical actuation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), devices based on the photomechanical actuation of CNTs have been elusive until now. In this paper, we report the integration of single-wall carbon nanotube ensembles into micro-mechanical systems to realize a new carbon nanotube micro-opto-mechanical system (CNT-MOMS). CNT-MOM grippers were fab...

Carbon nanotube (CNT) and graphene-based sponges and aerogels have an isotropic porous structure and their mechanical strength and stability are relatively lower. Here, we present a junction-welding approach to fabricate porous CNT solids in which all CNTs are coated and welded in situ by an amorphous carbon layer, forming an integral three-dimensional scaffold with fixed joints. The resulting ...

in this work, theoretical investigations on carbon nanotube with oxygen atom have been carried out by firstprinciplescalculations and density functional theory and hartree fock theory in 3-216 and 6-316 basis sets. theinteraction energy of the oxygen atom to a cnt is calculated. the effects of this substitutions have beeninvestigated on the during transplantation (10,0) single-walled carbon nan...

density functional theory (dft) calculations were performed to investigate the effects of a carbon nanotube (cnt) on the properties of the fluorouracil (f-uracil) anticancer drug. to achieve the purpose, a molecular model including both of f-uracil and cnt molecules was created to represent the cnt@f-uracil compound. the optimized parameters indicated that the new compound could show new proper...

We present a combined approach that relies on computational simulations and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements to reveal morphological properties and stability criteria of carbon nanotube-DNA (CNT-DNA) constructs. Application of STM allows direct observation of very stable CNT-DNA hybrid structures with the well-defined DNA wrapping angle of 63.4° and a coiling period of 3.3 nm. U...

In this paper, a refined plate theory is applied to investigate the free vibration analysis of functionally graded nanocomposite sandwich plates reinforced by randomly oriented straight carbon nanotube (CNT). The refined shear deformation plate theory (RSDT) uses only four independent unknowns and accounts for a quadratic variation of the transverse shear strains across the thickness, and satis...