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Carbon nanotube (CNT) wires approach copper's specific conductivity and surpass carbon fiber's strength, with further improvement anticipated with greater aspect ratios and incorporation of dopants with long-range structural order.…

Theory predicts peculiar features for excited-state dynamics in one dimension (1D) that are difficult to be observed experimentally. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are an excellent approximation to 1D quantum confinement, due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Giancarlo Soavi , Francesco Scotognella , Daniele Viola , Timo Hefner , Tobias Hertel , Giulio Cerullo , Guglielmo Lanzani

The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the self-stress state of single-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and flat graphene strips (FGSs) in their natural equilibrium state, that is, the state prior to the application of external loads. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-06 Antonino Favata , Andrea Micheletti , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Nicola Pugno

The interactions between carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and metal adatoms as well as metal contacts are studied by means of ab initio electronic structure calculations. We show that the electronic properties of a semiconducting (8,4) CNT can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 F. Fuchs , A. Zienert , C. Wagner , J. Schuster , S. E. Schulz

Behaviour of hot electrons under the influence of dc field in carbon nanotubes is theoretically considered. The study was done semi-classically by solving Boltzmann transport equation with the presence of the hot electrons source to derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-10 M. Amekpewu , K. A. Dompreh , S. Y. Mensah , N. G. Mensah , S. S. Abukari , R. Musah , A. Twum , R. Edziah

In order to investigate the coupling between the degrees of alignment of elongated particles in binary nematic dispersions, surfactant stabilized single-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been added to nematic suspensions of colloidal…

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a fundamental tool in modern laser technology, enabling coherent frequency conversion to remote optical bands, serving as the basis for self-referenced femtosecond lasers and quadrature-squeezed light…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-10 Nikolai Kuznetsov , Zihan Li , Tobias J. Kippenberg

We observe photothermal self-oscillations in individual, suspended, quasi-metallic carbon nanotube (CNT) pn devices irradiated with focused CW 633nm light. Here, the bottom of the trench forms an optical cavity with an anti-node at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-30 Moh. R. Amer , Tony Levi , Stephen B. Cronin

The magneto-conductance of an open carbon nanotube (CNT)-quantum wire was measured in pulsed magnetic fields. At low temperatures we find a peculiar split magneto-conductance peak close to the charge neutrality point. Our analysis of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 S. H. Jhang , M. Marganska , Y. Skourski , D. Preusche , B. Witkamp , M. Grifoni , H. van der Zant , J. Wosnitza , C. Strunk

We investigate the electronic transport properties of semiconducting ($m$,$n$) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the mesoscopic length scale with arbitrarily distributed realistic defects. The study is done by performing quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Fabian Teichert , Andreas Zienert , Jörg Schuster , Michael Schreiber

Given the high potential for applications utilizing the unique properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), there is considerable enthusiasm for addressing the challenges associated with synthesizing SWCNTs with specific…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Ikuma Kohata , Ryo Yoshikawa , Kaoru Hisama , Christophe Bichara , Keigo Otsuka , Shigeo Maruyama

In this work we present an ab-initio study of electronic properties of 1 dimensional (1D) core-shell nanostructures made of MS2 (MoS2, WS2) or BN armchair nanotube encapsulated carbon nanotubes (CNT). With local density approximation (LDA)…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-24 Amretashis Sengupta

Although individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are superior as constituents to polymer chains, the mechanical and thermal properties of CNT fibers (CNTFs) remain inferior to commercial synthetic fibers due to the lack of synthesis methods to…

The recent development of efficient chirality sorting techniques has opened the way to the use of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in a plethora of nanoelectronic, photovoltaic, and optoelectronic applications. However, to understand…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 María Rosa Preciado-Rivas , Victor Alexander Torres-Sánchez , Duncan J. Mowbray

Printed electronics rely on the deposition of conductive liquid inks, typically onto polymeric or paper substrates. Among available conductive fillers for use in electronic inks, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have high conductivity, low density,…

Vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests are a particularly interesting class of nanomaterials, because they combine multifunctional properties, such as high energy absorption, compressive strength, recoverability and…

I clarify some recent confusion regarding the holographic description of finite-density systems in two dimensions. Notably, the chiral anomaly for symmetry currents in 2d conformal field theories (CFT) completely determines their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-03 Kristan Jensen

Single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) exhibit remarkable optical and electrical properties making them one of the most promising materials for next generation electronic and optoelectronic devices. Their electronic properties strongly depend…

In the present work, different synthesis procedures have been demonstrated to fill carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with $\mathrm{Fe}_{1-x}\mathrm{Ni}_x$ alloy nanoparticles (x = 0.33, 0.5). CNTs act as templates for the encapsulation of magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-28 Rasha Ghunaim , Christine Damm , Daniel Wolf , Axel Lubk , Bernd Büchner , Michael Mertig , Silke Hampel

Calculations of the conductance of a carbon nanotube (CNT)-molecule-CNT structure are in agreement with experimental measurements [1]. The features in the transmission correspond directly to the features of the isolated molecular orbitals.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Nicolas A. Bruque , M. K. Ashraf , Roger K. Lake