Two types of bacteria were placed on the top surface of carbon nanotube films and the composite film morphology was examined using scanning electron microscopy. The interaction of bacteria with the carbonaceous film was studied after drying and subsequent heating to 1000 °C. For gram-positive bacteria, subsequent shrinkage of the bacterial layer causes film stresses and roll-up, and for the gra...

In the present study, reverse nonequilibrium molecular dynamics is employed to study thermal resistance across interfaces comprising dimensionally mismatched junctions of single layer graphene floors with (6,6) single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) pillars in 3D carbon nanomaterials. Results obtained from unit cell analysis indicate the presence of notable interfacial thermal resistance in the ...

Esterification of oxidized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can open a new route for the separation of zigzag and armchair nanotubes. We studied theoretically (by using hybrid DFT within the ONIOM embedding protocol) the reactions of monocarboxy-substituted oxidized tips of zigzag and armchair single-walled CNTs (SWCNTs) with methanol. According to the calculated values of activation energy, Gibbs free-...

In this work, a molecular dynamics simulation of the transport of water - methanol mixture through the single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) is reported. Methanol and water are selected as fluid molecules since water represents a strongly polar molecule while methanol is as an intermediate between polar and strongly polar molecules. Some physical properties of the methanol-water mixture such as r...

In this paper, we have explored the feasibility of a carbon nanotube (CNT) ring oscillator (RO) for detecting ionized radiation. The effect of ion irradiation on the oscillation frequency of CNT-based RO is considered using the displacement damage dose (DDD) methodology. The analytical model of the irradiated resistance of metallic single-walled CNT (SWCNT) has been developed and verified by ex...

density-functional theory is used to investigate sulfur dioxide physisorption inside and outside of single-wall carbon nanotube of (5,0) and (5,5). this study is conducted at b3lyp/6-31g* level of theory. sulfur dioxide molecule is studied with axis oriented parallel or perpendicular to the nanotube wall. both internal and external adsorption on nanotubes is increased with the angle of interact...

Carbon nanotubes are promising nanoscale materials for novel electrical, mechanical, chemical, and biological device and sensors based on its outstanding properties. Single walled carbon nanotubes can be either semiconducting or metallic material depending on its structures. However, controlling the structure is quite challenging with current technologies. For the network formation of the singl...

Aligned single-walled carbon nanotube arrays provide a great potential for the carbon-based nanodevices and circuit integration. Aligning single-walled carbon nanotubes with selected helicities and identifying their helical structures remain a daunting issue. The widely used gas-directed and surface-directed growth modes generally suffer the drawbacks of mixed and unknown helicities of the alig...

The discovery of carbon nanotubes produced by graphite, first reported by Iijima in 1991(S. Iijima & T. Ichihasi 1993), ushered in a new and very amazing research field in compacting gases by physisorption methods. The changes in electrical resistance, by adsorption of certain gas molecules are considerable, for example by adsorption of O2, N2, NH3 and H2 (H. Chang et al. 2001). Figure 1 depict...

the overall aim of this study is to calculate some water properties in the single wall carbon naotubes (swcnt) and compare them to the bulk water properties to investigate the deviation of water properties inside the swcnt from those in the bulk. here some physical and transport properties of water molecules in the single wall carbon nanotube were reported by performing molecular dynamics (md) ...