There is a prevailing and widely adopted view that carbon nanotubes, which are finding considerable application in energy, healthcare, and electronics applications, are highly (electro)catalytically inert unless modified, doped, or defected. By visualizing the electrochemical reduction of oxygen (hydrogen peroxide generation) at high resolution along pristine (defect-free) regions of individual...

as drug delivery systems nanoparticulan widely investigated because of many advantages such as smaller size,controlled drug release potential targeting ability, enhancement of therapeutic efficacy and reduction oftoxicity. so, carbon nanotubes have recently received considerable attention as alternative drug delivery carrierin this study we investigate interaction of tamoxifen with open-end of ...

A facile, two-step method for chemically attaching single-stranded DNA to graphitic surfaces, represented here by carbon nanotubes, is reported. In the first step, an azide-containing compound, N-5-azido-nitrobenzoyloxy succinimide (ANB-NOS), is used to form photo-adducts on the graphitic surfaces in a solid-state photochemical reaction, resulting in active ester groups being oriented for the s...

the reaction mechanism between (h2c) and (7, 0), zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes(zswcnts) on two different orientation of c-c have been studied by semi empirical am!method. the activation barriers of (h2c) adding to (7, 0) zswcnt are computed and compared.the effects of diameters of zigzag swcnt on their binding energies were studied

We have continued our efforts in the J. R. Macdonald Laboratory directed toward the study of electronic excitations and dynamics in carbon nanotubes excited by femtosecond pump-probe laser pulses generated by the ultra-fast Ti:Sapphire Kansas Light Source, KLS. We use time-of-flight of electrons emitted from carbon nanotubes to deduce the energy and temporal behavior of the electronic states of...

Control over chemical functionalization is a crucial point in the field of nanotechnology. Herein, we present the covalent functionalization of several carbon nanoforms (single-walled carbon nanotubes, double-walled carbon nanotubes, multi-walled carbon nanotubes and carbon nanohorns) by means of diphenyl dichalcogenides. These ones show different reactivity to the nanomaterials and are able to...

The dynamic instability of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT), double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNT) and triple-walled carbon nanotubes (TWCNT) embedded in an elastic medium under combined static and periodic axial loads are investigated using Floquet–Lyapunov theory. An elastic multiple-beam model is utilized where the nested slender nanotubes are coupled with each other through the van d...

This paper discuss about the critical review on design of carbon nanotube based MEMS piezoresistive pressure sensors, use of different types of carbon nanotubes such as multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VANTs), sensing mechanism, applications, etc. The structural deformation of the piezoresistive nano structur...

We show that single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) bundles emit visible fluorescence in the presence of noble metal nanoparticles and nanorods in the solid state. Conductivity measurements with metallic nanotubes, isolated from pristine SWNTs, show that they become semiconducting in the presence of the metal nanoparticles. Nanoparticle binding increases the defects in the nanotube structures whi...