Room-temperature assembly of directional carbon nanotube strings

Jian Chen; Wayne A Weimer

doi:10.1021/ja017384t

Room-temperature assembly of directional carbon nanotube strings

J Am Chem Soc. 2002 Feb 6;124(5):758-9. doi: 10.1021/ja017384t.

Authors

Jian Chen¹, Wayne A Weimer

Affiliation

¹ Advanced Technologies Group, Zyvex Corporation, 1321 North Plano Road, Richardson, Texas, USA. jchen@zyvex.com

PMID: 11817944
DOI: 10.1021/ja017384t

Abstract

Micromold with microchannels was employed in assembly of directional free-standing single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) strings at room temperature. The new postgrowth assembly approach could, in principle, apply not only to a wide range of SWNTs in their soluble or dispersible forms, including small diameter (0.7-0.8 nm) SWNTs, covalent- and noncovalent-functionalized SWNTs, monodispersed SWNTs with identical diameter and chirality, and fullerenes@SWNTs, which either cannot survive the high-temperature treatment or cannot be synthesized by current CVD method, but also to other soluble or dispersible one-dimensional nanostructures.