3 Justin L. Shobe*, Leslie D. Claar*, Sepideh Parhami, Konstantin I. Bakhurin, 4 and Sotiris C. Masmanidis 5 6 Department of Neurobiology, Department of Bioengineering, Neuroscience Interdepartmental 7 Program, Integrative Center for Learning and Memory, California NanoSystems Institute, 8 University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. 9 *Equal contribution. 10 11 Correspondence ...

We address the quality of electrical contact between carbon nanotubes and metallic electrodes by performing first-principles calculations for the electron transmission through ideal 2- and 3-terminal junctions, thus revealing the physical limit of tube-metal conduction. The structural model constructed involves surrounding the tube by the metal atoms of the electrode as in most experiments; we ...

The deflection of a piezoelectric tube, with the outer (or inner) metal coating sectioned into four quadrants, is analyzed. We show that by applying a voltage V on one of the quadrants, the electromechanical deflection is ( Jzd,, VL2/?rDh), where d,, is the piezoel&tric coefficient, L is the length, D the diameter, and h the wall thickness of the tube. The deflections calculated with it agree w...

The fabrication of nanowire (NW) devices on diverse substrates is necessary for applications such as flexible electronics, conformable sensors, and transparent solar cells. Although NWs have been fabricated on plastic and glass by lithographic methods, the choice of device substrates is severely limited by the lithographic process temperature and substrate properties. Here we report three new t...

a carbon nanocomposite electrode has been designed by incorporation of montmorillonite nanoclayinto the carbon ionic liquid electrode for the electrochemical determination of amitriptiline . the surface ofthe proposed electrode was characterized by scanning electron microscopy. the presence of ionic liquid asa binder is believed to be responsible for the electrocatalytic activity of the propose...

adsorption on Pt monolayer island modified Ru(0001) electrodes Sung Sakong, Julia M. Fischer, David Mahlberg, R. Jürgen Behm, and Axel Groß Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Ulm University, D-89069 Ulm, Germany Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia Institute of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Ulm University, D-8...

State-of-the-art electrophysiological recordings from the brains of freely behaving animals allow researchers to simultaneously examine local field potentials (LFPs) from populations of neurons and action potentials from individual cells, as the animal engages in experimentally relevant tasks. Chronically implanted microdrives allow for brain recordings to last over periods of several weeks. Mi...

The chemical vapor deposition growth of unusual arrangements of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) by the combined of use patterned catalysts and quartz substrates is reported. Nearly perfectly aligned, high-coverage arrays of SWNTs can be generated in this manner. High-coverage random networks of SWNTs can also be created in the same growth step, with good spatial alignment and electrical ...

The glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin composites play an important role in superconducting Tokamak, which are used to insulate the metal components, such as superconducting winding, cooling pipes, metal electrodes and so on. For the components made of metal and glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin composites, thermal shrinkage leads to non-ignorable thermal stress, therefore, much attention shou...

A highly-stable and biocompatible nanoporous electrode is demonstrated herein. The electrode is based on a porous anodic alumina which is conformally coated with an ultra-thin layer of diamond-like carbon. The nanocarbon coating plays an essential role for the chemical stability and biocompatibility of the electrodes; thus, the coated electrodes are ideally suited for biomedical applications. T...