A single-walled carbon nanotube (SW-CNT) is a nano scale tube formed by a cylindrical shell of single atomic layer of carbon atoms. Nanotubes have diameter of a few nm and length up to 100μm so that they form extremely thin wires. The atomic structure of SWCNT can be formed by wrapping a stripe of single atomic layer of graphite sheet along a certain direction, and this direction determines the...

Aligned one-dimensional carbon nanostructures with different morphologies such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and carbon nanofibers (CNFs) have been synthesized by the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method with different catalyst/underlayer combinations. The electronic structures of CNTs and CNFs have been studied by X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy (XANES), which reveal...

Unique properties of carbon nanofibers (CNF) depends on its microstructure and bulk morphology, which are governed by catalysts, carbon sources and synthesis conditions in the catalytic growth of CNF. Hence, exact understanding of the structure of CNF is important to achieve best performance of the CNF in practical applications. In a previous work [1], the present authors have proposed that the...

The present study examined the gas-phase photocatalytic degradation of toluene using ZnO-SnO2 nanocomposite supported on activated carbon in a photocatalytic reactor. Toluene was selected as a model pollutant from volatile organic compounds to determine the pathway of photocatalytic degradation and the factors influencing this degradation. The ZnO-SnO2 nanocomposite was synthesized through co-p...

Supercapacitor (SC) is an energy storage technology that bridges the gap between conventional capacitors and rechargeable batteries. Emerging nano-architectured carbon–metal oxide composites are promising for electrode designs for supercapacitors due to their unique strategy utilizing electrochemical double-layer capacitance (EDLC) and pseudo-capacitance together in single cell to optimize the ...

The fatigue cracks are observed in asphalt surfaces much more than ruts. This paper deals with the influence of carbon nano-tube on the fatigue life of asphalt mixtures. These samples are made up of the slabs cut by the asphalt cutting saw. Fatigue beams contain 0, 0.3, 0.6, 0.9, 1.2, and 1.5 percent of Carbon Nano-tube. The fatigue experiment was conducted using a 4-point semi-sinusoidal loadi...

cu2o nanoparticles were synthesized by thermal treatment in liquid paraffin without any inert gas protection using nano structures of schiff base copper (ii) complex (1) as precursor. liquid paraffin was used as solvent and reductant. span 80 was applied to control the morphology of cuprous oxide nanoparticles. the nano structure of the complex was characterized by x-ray diffraction measurement...

the free vibration of the lattice cylindrical composite shell reinforced with carbon nano-tubes (cnts) was studied in this study. the theoretical formulations are based on the first-order shear deformation theory (fsdt) and then by enforcing the galerkin method, natural frequencies are obtained. in order to estimate the material properties of the reinforced polymer with nano-tubes, the modified...

This article examines the cognitive evolution and disciplinary diversity of nanoscience/nanotechnology (nano research) as expressed through the terminology used in titles of nano journal articles. The analysis is based on the NanoBank bibliographic database of 287,106 nano articles published between 1981 and 2004. We perform multifaceted analyses of title words, focusing on 100 most frequent wo...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are specific structures with valuable characteristics. In general, the structure of each nanotube is defined by a unique chiral vector. In this paper, different structures of short single-walled CNTs are simulated and their mechanical properties are determined using finite element method. For this aim, a simple algorithm is presented which is able to model the geometry o...