Joining Carbon Nanotubes
21 December 2007, 00:19
Categories: nanotubes-wires-fullerenes techniques
Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have demonstrated a new way to connect carbon nanotubes (CNTs). It’s an important development; there have been few reports on methods of joining CNTs, end-to-end, so that the bottom-up fabrication of larger nanotube structures might be achieved. The team has been able to demonstrate that CNTs with the same, or similar, diameters can be connected with a heating process. Additionally, CNTs of different diameters can be seamlessly joined by using a tungsten metal particle.
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