We have studied nickel, gold, and ferritin coatings on catalytically grown multiwall carbon nanotubes as well as the generation of secondary nanotubes by resubmitting the decorated nanotubes to the chemical vapor deposition process. Nickel layers sputtered on nanotubes show a stronger interaction with the nanotube walls than gold coatings. At ambient temperature this results in a metal film tha...

Double-walled TiO2 nanotubes with porous wall morphologies are fabricated by anodization under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. TiO2 formed by anodization of Ti is activated to generate electrons and holes by UV and the anodization process is influenced by the photo-generated charges. As a consequence, morphologies of the fabricated TiO2 nanotubes can be adjusted by controlling the UV illumination...

The transport properties, work functions, electronic structure, and structural stability of boron nanotubes with different lattice structures, radii, and chiralities are investigated theoretically. As the atomic structure of boron nanotubes and the related sheets is still under debate, three probable structural classes (nanotubes derived from the α-sheet, the buckled triangular sheet, and the d...

Communication between cells is crucial for proper functioning of multicellular organisms. The recently discovered membranous tubes, named tunneling nanotubes, that directly bridge neighboring cells may offer a very specific and effective way of intercellular communication. Our experiments on RT4 and T24 urothelial cell lines show that nanotubes that bridge neighboring cells can be divided into ...

in this study, salmonella typhimurium bacteria removal from polluted water has been investigated using multiwall carbon nanotubes arrays. experimental results reveal that the contact time, the bacterial concentration and the weight of multiwall carbon nanotubes arrays have positive significant effects on the bacteria removal efficiency. increasing the contact time and the weight of multiwall ca...

A new manufacturing strategy for buckling of aligned carbon nanotubes is developed, which does not involve prestretching the substrate but relies on the interface interaction between the nanotubes and the substrate. More specifically, upon stretching the substrate the nanotubes slide on the substrate, but upon releasing the nanotubes buckle. Following this manufacturing strategy, stretchable co...

the electric quadrupole, hexadecapole moments, energy (kjmol -1) for some armchair polyhex carbon nanotubes tuvc6[2p,q] are performed by beck-lee-yang-parr [b3lyp] on 3-21g basis set using the standard procedure indices gaussian 98, then the padmakar-ivan (pi) index of tuvc6[2p,q] nanotubes in the terms of their circumference (2p) and lengh (q) is calculated and the relationships between the pa...

Vanadium oxide nanotubes belong to inorganic nanotubes. One inorganic nanotubes (WS2) synthesized in 1992.Vanadium oxide nanotubes discovared by spahr in 1998.Vanadium oxide nanotubes are used in chemical, bio, electronics and catalysts industry. Many applications of these nanotubes have not yet been discovered. Especially when these nanotubes are doped with different elements. The structure of...

tellurium nanostructures have been prepared by physical vapor deposition method in a tube furnace. the experiments were carried out under argon gas flow at a pressure of 1 mbar. tellurium powder was evaporated by heating at 350°c and 430°c and was condensed on substrates at 110–250°c, in the downstream of argon gas flow. the products were characterized by field emission scanning electron micros...

to investigate the electromagnetic interaction of molecules inside the nanotubes, first, the structure of nanotubes b16n16 was optimized with hybrid density functional theory (b3lyp) using the epr-ii basis set, then cu, cu+, cu++ were located in nanotube and we studied the total energy, band gap energy, electrical potential, changes of band gap energy in terms of total energy and dipole moment ...