The electrical sensitivity of glass fiber/multiwall carbon nanotube/vinyl ester hierarchical composites containing a tailored electrically-percolated network to self-sense accumulation of structural damage when subjected to cyclic tensile loading-unloading is investigated. The hierarchical composites were designed to contain two architectures differentiated by the location of the multiwall carb...

We report on light emission from biased metallic single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT), multiwall carbon nanotube (MWNT) and few-layer graphene (FLG) devices. SWNT devices were assembled from tubes with different diameters in the range 0.7-1.5 nm. They emit light in the visible spectrum with peaks at 1.4 and 1.8 eV. Similar peaks are observed for MWNT and FLG devices. We propose that this light em...

The present work describes the construction of a new modified graphite-multiwall carbon nanotube paste electrode by casting the appropriate mixture of tetraheptylammonium iodide-iodine as a new modifier. The modified paste electrode was used for the determination of ascorbic acid (AA) in a phosphate buffer solution (pH 2.0). When compared to activated carbon, a graphite and multiwall carbon nan...

We report resonant multiple Andreev reflections in a multiwall carbon nanotube quantum dot coupled to superconducting leads. The position and magnitude of the subharmonic gap structure is found to depend strongly on the level positions of the single-electron states which are adjusted with a gate electrode. We discuss a theoretical model of the device and compare the calculated differential cond...

Third sound is known to depend on the chemistry and geometry of the substrate on which a superfluid film is adsorbed. We have studied third sound in films adsorbed on multiwall carbon nanotubes to determine the effects of the cylindrical nanotube geometry. The Van der Waals potential for a single nanotube and the theoretical propagation velocity on the outer surface of a nanotube are presented....

Levedopa was sensitively determined based on electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) mechanism through enhancing the weak ECL of electro-oxidized luminal in presence of levodopa, on a multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)-modified electrode. Under optimal conditions, the relative ECL emission/levodopa concentration plot was found to be linear from 1.0×10-9 to 1.7×10-7 M and a detection limit of ...

A water-soluble acid oxidized multiwall carbon nanotube o-MWCNTs -polythiophene composite for bilayer photovoltaics is reported. Discrete heterojunction photovoltaic cells utilizing this nanocomposite material as the donor layer exhibit a 20% increase in fill factor and commensurate increase in power conversion efficiency as compared to cells without o-MWCNTs. Crucially o-MWCNTs are incorporate...