Submitted to the NANOTUBE'04 Conference: Synthesis of Peapods Directly on Substrates Y. Ohno, Y. Kurokawa, T. Shimada, Y. Murakami, A. Sakai, K. Hiraga, M. Ishida, T. Okazaki, S. Kishimoto, S. Maruyama, H. Shinohara, and T. Mizutani Dept. of Quantum Eng., Nagoya Univ., Japan, PRESTO/JST, Japan, Dept. of Chemistry, Nagoya Univ., Japan, Dept. of Mechanical Eng., The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, Inst. o...

Recent advancements in nanotechnology have proposed the Carbon nanotubes as electrode material for the Supercapacitor applications due to their unique properties. Synthesis of Carbon nanotube in Catalytic Chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) is the easiest and economic way of production in a larger scale. The synthesized MWCNTs were characterized by X – ray diffraction (XRD). The morphological char...

Optical surfaces that can repel both water and oil have much potential for applications in a diverse array of technologies including self-cleaning solar panels, anti-icing windows and windshields for automobiles and aircrafts, low-drag surfaces, and antismudge touch screens. By exploiting a hierarchical geometry made of two-tier nanostructures, primary nanopillars of length scale ∼ 100-200 nm s...

Three types of graphitic shelled-magnetic core (Fe, Fe/Co, and Co) nanoparticles (named as C-Fe, C-Fe/Co, and C-Co NPs) were synthesized by radio frequency-catalytic chemical vapor deposition (RF-cCVD). X-ray diffraction and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis revealed that the cores inside the carbon shells of these NPs were preserved in their metallic states. Fluorescence microscopy ima...

The article describes significant role of catalyst in the deposition of various materials on different substrates surface via Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. CVD is a complex process of depositing thin coatings on a substrate surface via chemical reactions of gaseous materials. It is a useful process to produce materials of high purity, density and strength. It has emerged as a novel m...

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has been estimated to reduce quality of life in approximately 2 million symptomatic Americans,1 and millions more Americans without claudication are likely to suffer PAD-associated impairment.2 PAD is a strongly age-dependent condition that contributes significantly to morbidity and healthcare expenditures in the elderly: There are 413 000 discharges per year w...

OBJECTIVES To (1) evaluate the relationships between several indices of obesity with obesity-related risk factors; (2) compare the accuracy of body composition estimates derived from anthropometry and bioimpedance analysis (BIA) to estimates of body composition assessed by doubly-labeled water (DLW); and (3) establish equations for estimating fat mass (FM), fat-free mass (FFM), and percent body...

Multiand double-walled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) have been synthesized with the aid of a floating nickel catalyst via the catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) of either the amineborane borazine (B3N3H6) or the polyhedral-borane decaborane (B10H14) molecular precursors in ammonia atmospheres. Both sets of BNNTs were crystalline with highly ordered structures. The BNNTs grown at 1200 ...