Ultrathin "bed-of-nails" membranes of single-wall carbon nanotubes

Yuhuang Wang; Sean Da; Myung Jong Kim; Kevin F Kelly; Wenhua Guo; Carter Kittrell; Robert H Hauge; Richard E Smalley

doi:10.1021/ja048680j

Ultrathin "bed-of-nails" membranes of single-wall carbon nanotubes

J Am Chem Soc. 2004 Aug 11;126(31):9502-3. doi: 10.1021/ja048680j.

Authors

Yuhuang Wang¹, Sean Da, Myung Jong Kim, Kevin F Kelly, Wenhua Guo, Carter Kittrell, Robert H Hauge, Richard E Smalley

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, MS-100, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251-1892, USA.

PMID: 15291529
DOI: 10.1021/ja048680j

Abstract

Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were arranged in a membrane similar to a "bed-of-nails", in which a single layer of parallel SWNTs was densely packed and aligned along the normal to the membrane. The planar, free-standing, ultrathin SWNT membranes were prepared by milling a neat SWNT fiber with a gallium focused ion beam. The approach is readily applicable to cutting nanotubes to a desirable and precise length and enables further fabrication of devices using the "bed-of-nails" membranes to test the transport properties of SWNTs.