Carbon nanotube networks on different platforms

Carbon

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-18

  Saha, Avishek ^a,b   Jiang, Chengmin ^a,b   Martí, Angel A ^a,b,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POROUS MATERIALS; SUBSTRATES;

CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORK; CARBONNANOTUBE NETWORK (CNT); CNT NETWORKS; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84920607129     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.07.060     Document Type: Review

References (224)

1. Iijima S. Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon. Nature 1991;354(6348):56-8.
2. Durkop T, Getty SA, Cobas E, Fuhrer MS. Extraordinary mobility in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Nano Lett 2004;4(1):35-9.
3. Ebbesen TW, Lezec HJ, Hiura H, Bennett JW, Ghaemi HF, Thio T. Electrical conductivity of individual carbon nanotubes. Nature 1996;382(6586):54-6.
4. Pop E, Mann D, Wang Q, Goodson K, Dai H. Thermal conductance of an individual single-wall carbon nanotube above room temperature. Nano Lett 2006;6(1):96-100.
5. Peng B, Locascio M, Zapol P, Li S, Mielke SL, Schatz GC, et al. Measurements of near-ultimate strength for multiwalled carbon nanotubes and irradiation-induced crosslinking improvements. Nat Nanotechnol 2008;3(10):626-31.
6. Sun DM, Timmermans MY, Tian Y, Nasibulin AG, Kauppinen EI, Kishimoto S, et al. Flexible high-performance carbon nanotube integrated circuits. Nat Nanotechnol 2011;6(3):156-61.
7. Hecht DS, Heintz AM, Lee R, Hu LB, Moore B, Cucksey C, et al. High conductivity transparent carbon nanotube films deposited from superacid. Nanotechnology 2011;22(7):075201.
8. Nardecchia S, Carriazo D, Ferrer ML, Gutierrez MC, del Monte F. Three dimensional macroporous architectures and aerogels built of carbon nanotubes and/or graphene: synthesis and applications. Chem Soc Rev 2013;42(2):794-830.
9. Gruner G. Carbon nanotube films for transparent and plastic electronics. J Mater Chem 2006;16(35):3533-9.
10. Cao Q, Rogers JA. Ultrathin films of single-walled carbon nanotubes for electronics and sensors: a review of fundamental and applied aspects. Adv Mater 2009;21(1):29-53.
11. Hu L, Hecht DS, Grüner G. Carbon nanotube thin films: fabrication, properties, and applications. Chem Rev 2010;110(10):5790-844.
12. Roth S, Park HJ. Nanocarbonic transparent conductive films. Chem Soc Rev 2010;39(7):2477-83.
13. Hecht DS, Hu L, Irvin G. Emerging transparent electrodes based on thin films of carbon nanotubes, graphene, and metallic nanostructures. Adv Mater 2011;23(13):1482-513.
14. Du JH, Pei SF, Ma LP, Cheng HM. 25th Anniversary article: carbon nanotube-and graphene-based transparent conductive films for optoelectronic devices. Adv Mater 2014;26(13):1958-91.
15. Huang S, Cai X, Liu J. Growth of millimeter-long and horizontally aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes on flat substrates. J Am Chem Soc 2003;125(19):5636-7.
16. Zhao MQ, Tian GL, Zhang Q, Huang JQ, Nie JQ, Wei F. Preferential growth of short aligned, metallic-rich singlewalled carbon nanotubes from perpendicular layered double hydroxide film. Nanoscale 2012;4(7):2470-7.
17. Che Y, Wang C, Liu J, Liu B, Lin X, Parker J, et al. Selective synthesis and device applications of semiconducting singlewalled carbon nanotubes using isopropyl alcohol as feedstock. ACS Nano 2012;6(8):7454-62.
18. Han S, Liu X, Zhou C. Template-free directional growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on a-and r-plane sapphire. J Am Chem Soc 2005;127(15):5294-5.
19. Huang L, Wind SJ, O'Brien SP. Controlled growth of singlewalled carbon nanotubes from an ordered mesoporous silica template. Nano Lett 2003;3(3):299-303.
20. Han ZJ, Mehdipour H, Li X, Shen J, Randeniya L, Yang HY, et al. SWCNT networks on nanoporous silica catalyst support: morphological and connectivity control for nanoelectronic, gas-sensing, and biosensing devices. ACS Nano 2012;6(7):5809-19.
21. Wongwiriyapan W, Honda S, Konishi H, Mizuta T, Ohmori T, Ito T, et al. Direct growth of single-walled carbon nanotube networks on alumina substrate: a novel route to ultrasensitive gas sensor fabrication. Jpn J Appl Phys Part 1 2005;44(11):8227-30.
22. Snow ES, Novak JP, Campbell PM, Park D. Random networks of carbon nanotubes as an electronic material. Appl Phys Lett 2003;82(13):2145-7.
23. Bisri SZ, Gao J, Derenskyi V, Gomulya W, Iezhokin I, Gordiichuk P, et al. High performance ambipolar field-effect transistor of random network carbon nanotubes. Adv Mater 2012;24(46):6147-52.
24. Behnam A, Sangwan VK, Zhong X, Lian F, Estrada D, Jariwala D, et al. High-field transport and thermal reliability of sorted carbon nanotube network devices. ACS Nano 2013;7(1):482-90.
25. Saran N, Parikh K, Suh D-S, Muñoz E, Kolla H, Manohar SK. Fabrication and characterization of thin films of singlewalled carbon nanotube bundles on flexible plastic substrates. J Am Chem Soc 2004;126(14):4462-3.
26. Geng HZ, Kim KK, So KP, Lee YS, Chang Y, Lee YH. Effect of acid treatment on carbon nanotube-based flexible transparent conducting films. J Am Chem Soc 2007;129(25):7758-9.
27. Ng MHA, Hartadi LT, Tan H, Poa CHP. Efficient coating of transparent and conductive carbon nanotube thin films on plastic substrates. Nanotechnology 2008;19(20):205703.
28. Maeda Y, Komoriya K, Sode K, Higo J, Nakamura T, Yamada M, et al. Preparation and characterization of transparent and conductive thin films of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale 2011;3(4):1904-9.
29. Xie J, Wang H, Bai H, Yang P, Shi M, Guo P, et al. Wormlike micelle assisted rod coating: a general method for facile fabrication of large-area conductive nanomaterial thin layer onto flexible plastics. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2012;4(6):2891-6.
30. Rahy A, Bajaj P, Musselman IH, Hong SH, Sun Y-P, Yang DJ. Coating of carbon nanotubes on flexible substrate and its adhesion study. Appl Surf Sci 2009;255(15):7084-9.
31. Kaempgen M, Duesberg GS, Roth S. Transparent carbon nanotube coatings. Appl Surf Sci 2005;252(2):425-9.
32. Sato M, Sano M. Van der Waals layer-by-layer construction of a carbon nanotube 2D network. Langmuir 2005;21(24):11490-4.
33. Jang EY, Kang TJ, Im HW, Kim DW, Kim YH. Single-walled carbon-nanotube networks on large-area glass substrate by the dip-coating method. Small 2008;4(12):2255-61.
34. Mirri F, Ma AWK, Hsu TT, Behabtu N, Eichmann SL, Young CC, et al. High-performance carbon nanotube transparent conductive films by scalable dip coating. ACS Nano 2012;6(11):9737-44.
35. Shastry TA, Seo J-WT, Lopez JJ, Arnold HN, Kelter JZ, Sangwan VK, et al. Large-area, electronically monodisperse, aligned single-walled carbon nanotube thin films fabricated by evaporation-driven self-assembly. Small 2013;9(1):45-51.
36. Kobashi K, Ata S, Yamada T, Futaba DN, Yumura M, Hata K. A dispersion strategy: dendritic carbon nanotube network dispersion for advanced composites. Chem Sci 2013;4(2):727-33.
37. Park YT, Ham AY, Grunlan JC. Heating and acid doping thin film carbon nanotube assemblies for high transparency and low sheet resistance. J Mater Chem 2011;21(2):363-8.
38. Li Z, Kandel HR, Dervishi E, Saini V, Xu Y, Biris AR, et al. Comparative study on different carbon nanotube materials in terms of transparent conductive coatings. Langmuir 2008;24(6):2655-62.
39. Tulevski GS, Hannon J, Afzali A, Chen Z, Avouris P, Kagan CR. Chemically assisted directed assembly of carbon nanotubes for the fabrication of large-scale device arrays. J Am Chem Soc 2007;129(39):11964-8.
40. Lobez JM, Han S-J, Afzali A, Hannon JB. Surface selective one-step fabrication of carbon nanotube thin films with high density. ACS Nano 2014;8(5):4954-60.
41. Small WR, Walton CD, Loos J, Panhuis MIH. Carbon nanotube network formation from evaporating sessile drops. J Phys Chem B 2006;110(26):13029-36.
42. Rao SG, Huang L, Setyawan W, Hong SH. Large-scale assembly of carbon nanotubes. Nature 2003;425(6953):36-7.
43. Boccaccini AR, Cho J, Roether JA, Thomas BJC, Jane Minay E, Shaffer MSP. Electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes. Carbon 2006;44(15):3149-60.
44. Meitl MA, Zhou Y, Gaur A, Jeon S, Usrey ML, Strano MS, et al. Solution casting and transfer printing single-walled carbon nanotube films. Nano Lett 2004;4(9):1643-7.
45. LeMieux MC, Roberts M, Barman S, Jin YW, Kim JM, Bao ZN. Self-sorted, aligned nanotube networks for thin-film transistors. Science 2008;321(5885):101-4.
46. Jo JW, Jung JW, Lee JU, Jo WH. Fabrication of highly conductive and transparent thin films from single-walled carbon nanotubes using a new non-ionic surfactant via spin coating. ACS Nano 2010;4(9):5382-8.
47. Lin DW, Bettinger CJ, Ferreira JP, Wang CL, Bao ZN. A cellcompatible conductive film from a carbon nanotube network adsorbed on poly-L-lysine. ACS Nano 2011;5(12):10026-32.
48. Saha A, Ghosh S, Weisman RB, Martí AA. Films of bare single-walled carbon nanotubes from superacids with tailored electronic and photoluminescence properties. ACS Nano 2012;6(6):5727-34.
49. Tenent RC, Barnes TM, Bergeson JD, Ferguson AJ, To B, Gedvilas LM, et al. Ultrasmooth, large-area, highuniformity, conductive transparent single-walled-carbonnanotube films for photovoltaics produced by ultrasonic spraying. Adv Mater 2009;21(31):3210-6.
50. Liu Q, Fujigaya T, Cheng H-M, Nakashima N. Free-standing highly conductive transparent ultrathin single-walled carbon nanotube films. J Am Chem Soc 2010;132(46):16581-6.
51. Wu Z, Chen Z, Du X, Logan JM, Sippel J, Nikolou M, et al. Transparent, conductive carbon nanotube films. Science 2004;305(5688):1273-6.
52. Hu L, Hecht DS, Gruner G. Percolation in transparent and conducting carbon nanotube networks. Nano Lett 2004;4(12):2513-7.
53. Unalan HE, Fanchini G, Kanwal A, Du Pasquier A, Chhowalla M. Design criteria for transparent single-wall carbon nanotube thin-film transistors. Nano Lett 2006;6(4):677-82.
54. Blackburn JL, Barnes TM, Beard MC, Kim Y-H, Tenent RC, McDonald TJ, et al. Transparent conductive single-walled carbon nanotube networks with precisely tunable ratios of semiconducting and metallic nanotubes. ACS Nano 2008;2(6):1266-74.
55. Green AA, Hersam MC. Colored semitransparent conductive coatings consisting of monodisperse metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nano Lett 2008;8(5):1417-22.
56. Wang Y, Di CA, Liu YQ, Kajiura H, Ye SH, Cao LC, et al. Optimizing single-walled carbon nanotube films for applications in electroluminescent devices. Adv Mater 2008;20(23):4442-9.
57. Liu W-B, Pei S, Du J, Liu B, Gao L, Su Y, et al. Additive-free dispersion of single-walled carbon nanotubes and its application for transparent conductive films. Adv Funct Mater 2011;21(12):2330-7.
58. Shi Z, Chen X, Wang X, Zhang T, Jin J. Fabrication of superstrong ultrathin free-standing single-walled carbon nanotube films via a wet process. Adv Funct Mater 2011;21(22):4358-63.
59. Dan B, Irvin GC, Pasquali M. Continuous and scalable fabrication of transparent conducting carbon nanotube films. ACS Nano 2009;3(4):835-43.
60. Beecher P, Servati P, Rozhin A, Colli A, Scardaci V, Pisana S, et al. Ink-jet printing of carbon nanotube thin film transistors. J Appl Phys 2007;102(4):043710-43717.
61. Gracia-Espino E, Sala G, Pino F, Halonen N, Luomahaara J, Mäklin J, et al. Electrical transport and field-effect transistors using inkjet-printed SWCNT films having different functional side groups. ACS Nano 2010;4(6):3318-24.
62. Lee SW, Kim B-S, Chen S, Shao-Horn Y, Hammond PT. Layerby-layer assembly of all carbon nanotube ultrathin films for electrochemical applications. J Am Chem Soc 2009;131(2):671-9.
63. Shim BS, Zhu J, Jan E, Critchley K, Kotov NA. Transparent conductors from layer-by-layer assembled SWNT films: importance of mechanical properties and a new figure of merit. ACS Nano 2010;4(7):3725-34.
64. Asada Y, Miyata Y, Ohno Y, Kitaura R, Sugai T, Mizutani T, et al. High-performance thin-film transistors with DNAassisted solution processing of isolated single-walled carbon nanotubes. Adv Mater 2010;22(24):2698-701.
65. Bradley K, Gabriel J-CP, Grüner G. Flexible nanotube electronics. Nano Lett 2003;3(10):1353-5.
66. Hur SH, Park OO, Rogers JA. Extreme bendability of singlewalled carbon nanotube networks transferred from hightemperature growth substrates to plastic and their use in thin-film transistors. Appl Phys Lett 2005;86(24):243502.
67. Cao Q, Hur SH, Zhu ZT, Sun YG, Wang CJ, Meitl MA, et al. Highly bendable, transparent thin-film transistors that use carbon-nanotube-based conductors and semiconductors with elastomeric dielectrics. Adv Mater 2006;18(3):304-9.
68. Kang SJ, Kocabas C, Kim H-S, Cao Q, Meitl MA, Khang D-Y, et al. Printed multilayer superstructures of aligned singlewalled carbon nanotubes for electronic applications. Nano Lett 2007;7(11):3343-8.
69. Zhou YX, Hu LB, Gruner G. A method of printing carbon nanotube thin films. Appl Phys Lett 2006;88(12):123109.
70. Liu H, Takagi D, Chiashi S, Homma Y. Transfer and alignment of random single-walled carbon nanotube films by contact printing. ACS Nano 2010;4(2):933-8.
71. Kaskela A, Nasibulin AG, Timmermans MY, Aitchison B, Papadimitratos A, Tian Y, et al. Aerosol-synthesized SWCNT networks with tunable conductivity and transparency by a dry transfer technique. Nano Lett 2010;10(11):4349-55.
72. Nasibulin AG, Kaskela A, Mustonen K, Anisimov AS, Ruiz V, Kivistö S, et al. Multifunctional free-standing single-walled carbon nanotube films. ACS Nano 2011;5(4):3214-21.
73. Fukaya N, Kim DY, Kishimoto S, Noda S, Ohno Y. One-step sub-10 lm patterning of carbon-nanotube thin films for transparent conductor applications. ACS Nano 2014;8(4):3285-93.
74. Direct Dry Printing®. 2014. http://www.canatu.com/directdry-printing/.
75. Transparent Conductive Films. 2014. http://www.unidym.com/products/transparent.html.
76. Park S, Vosguerichian M, Bao Z. A review of fabrication and applications of carbon nanotube film-based flexible electronics. Nanoscale 2013;5(5):1727-52.
77. Han JT, Kim JS, Jeong HD, Jeong HJ, Jeong SY, Lee G-W. Modulating conductivity, environmental stability of transparent conducting nanotube films on flexible substrates by interfacial engineering. ACS Nano 2010;4(8):4551-8.
78. Hersam MC. Progress towards monodisperse single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nat Nanotechnol 2008;3(7):387-94.
79. Bachilo SM, Balzano L, Herrera JE, Pompeo F, Resasco DE, Weisman RB. Narrow (n, m)-distribution of single-walled carbon nanotubes grown using a solid supported catalyst. J Am Chem Soc 2003;125(37):11186-7.
80. He M, Jiang H, Liu B, Fedotov PV, Chernov AI, Obraztsova ED, et al. Chiral-selective growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on lattice-mismatched epitaxial cobalt nanoparticles. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1460.
81. Wang H, Wei L, Ren F, Wang Q, Pfefferle LD, Haller GL, et al. Chiral-selective CoSO4/SiO2 catalyst for (9, 8) single-walled carbon nanotube growth. ACS Nano 2012;7(1):614-26.
82. Wang B, Poa CHP, Wei L, Li L-J, Yang Y, Chen Y. (n, m) selectivity of single-walled carbon nanotubes by different carbon precursors on co-mo catalysts. J Am Chem Soc 2007;129(29):9014-9.
83. He MS, Jiang H, Kauppinen EI, Lehtonen J. Diameter and chiral angle distribution dependencies on the carbon precursors in surface-grown single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale 2012;4(23):7394-8.
84. Han ZJ, Yick S, Levchenko I, Tam E, Yajadda MMA, Kumar S, et al. Controlled synthesis of a large fraction of metallic single-walled carbon nanotube and semiconducting carbon nanowire networks. Nanoscale 2011;3(8):3214-20.
85. Harutyunyan AR, Chen G, Paronyan TM, Pigos EM, Kuznetsov OA, Hewaparakrama K, et al. Preferential growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes with metallic conductivity. Science 2009;326(5949):116-20.
86. Zhu Z, Jiang H, Susi T, Nasibulin AG, Kauppinen EI. The use of NH3 to promote the production of large-diameter singlewalled carbon nanotubes with a narrow (n, m) distribution. J Am Chem Soc 2010;133(5):1224-7.
87. Kato T, Hatakeyama R. Direct growth of short single-walled carbon nanotubes with narrow-chirality distribution by time-programmed plasma chemical vapor deposition. ACS Nano 2010;4(12):7395-400.
88. Arnold MS, Green AA, Hulvat JF, Stupp SI, Hersam MC. Sorting carbon nanotubes by electronic structure using density differentiation. Nat Nanotechnol 2006;1(1):60-5.
89. Green AA, Hersam MC. Nearly single-chirality singlewalled carbon nanotubes produced via orthogonal iterative density gradient ultracentrifugation. Adv Mater 2011;23(19):2185-90.
90. Yanagi K, Udoguchi H, Sagitani S, Oshima Y, Takenobu T, Kataura H, et al. Transport mechanisms in metallic and semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotube networks. ACS Nano 2010;4(7):4027-32.
91. Fujisawa K, Komiyama K, Muramatsu H, Shimamoto D, Tojo T, Kim YA, et al. Chirality-dependent transport in doublewalled carbon nanotube assemblies: the role of inner tubes. ACS Nano 2011;5(9):7547-54.
92. Huang S. Growing carbon nanotubes on patterned submicron-size SiO2 spheres. Carbon 2003;41(12):2347-52.
93. Nilsson L, Groening O, Emmenegger C, Kuettel O, Schaller E, Schlapbach L, et al. Scanning field emission from patterned carbon nanotube films. Appl Phys Lett 2000;76(15):2071-3.
94. Zhou W, Zhang Y, Li X, Yuan S, Jin Z, Xu J, et al. Preferential growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on silica spheres by chemical vapor deposition. J Phys Chem B 2005;109(15):6963-7.
95. Fujigaya T, Yoo J, Nakashima N. A method for the coating of silica spheres with an ultrathin layer of pristine singlewalled carbon nanotubes. Carbon 2011;49(2):468-76.
96. Yoo J, Fujigaya T, Nakashima N. Facile evaluation of interactions between carbon nanotubes and phthalocyanines using silica spheres coated with ultrathinlayers of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Chem Lett 2011;40(5):538-9.
97. Yoo J, Ozawa H, Fujigaya T, Nakashima N. Evaluation of affinity of molecules for carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale 2011;3(6):2517-22.
98. Fang FF, Choi HJ. Noncovalent self-assembly of carbon nanotube wrapped carbonyl iron particles and their magnetorheology. J Appl Phys 2008;103(7):07A301.
99. Fang FF, Liu YD, Choi HJ. Carbon nanotube coated magnetic carbonyl iron microspheres prepared by solvent casting method and their magneto-responsive characteristics. Colloids Surf A 2012;412:47-56.
100. Dionigi C, Stoliar P, Ruani G, Quiroga SD, Facchini M, Biscarini F. Carbon nanotube networks patterned from aqueous solutions of latex bead carriers. J Mater Chem 2007;17(35):3681-6.
101. Correa-Duarte MA, Kosiorek A, Kandulski W, Giersig M, Salgueiriño-Maceira V. Nanoengineered polymeric thin films by sintering CNT-coated polystyrene spheres. Small 2006;2(2):220-4.
102. Li SP, Wu W, Campidelli S, Sarnatskaia V, Prato M, Tridon A, et al. Adsorption of carbon nanotubes on active carbon microparticles. Carbon 2008;46(7):1091-5.
103. Saha A, Ghosh S, Behabtu N, Pasquali M, Marti AA. Singlewalled carbon nanotubes shell decorating porous silicate materials: a general platform for studying the interaction of carbon nanotubes with photoactive molecules. Chem Sci 2011;2(9):1682-7.
104. Brady-Estévez AS, Kang S, Elimelech M. A single-walledcarbon-nanotube filter for removal of viral and bacterial pathogens. Small 2008;4(4):481-4.
105. Steiner SA, Baumann TF, Kong J, Satcher JH, Dresselhaus MS. Iron-doped carbon aerogels: novel porous substrates for direct growth of carbon nanotubes. Langmuir 2007;23(9):5161-6.
106. Worsley MA, Stadermann M, Wang YM, Satcher Jr JH, Baumann TF. High surface area carbon aerogels as porous substrates for direct growth of carbon nanotubes. Chem Commun 2010;46(48):9253-5.
107. Zhou Y, Wang J, Hu Y, O'Hayre R, Shao Z. A porous LiFePO4 and carbon nanotube composite. Chem Commun 2010;46(38):7151-3.
108. Yang J, Wang J, Li X, Wang D, Liu J, Liang G, et al. Hierarchically porous LiFePO4/nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes composite as a cathode for lithium ion batteries. J Mater Chem 2012;22(15):7537-43.
109. Li X, Liu J, Zhang Y, Li Y, Liu H, Meng X, et al. High concentration nitrogen doped carbon nanotube anodes with superior Li+ storage performance for lithium rechargeable battery application. J Power Sources 2012;197:238-45.
110. Nishihara H, Fukura Y, Inde K, Tsuji K, Takeuchi M, Kyotani T. Carbon-coated mesoporous silica with hydrophobicity and electrical conductivity. Carbon 2008;46(1):48-53.
111. Kwon T, Nishihara H, Fukura Y, Inde K, Setoyama N, Fukushima Y, et al. Carbon-coated mesoporous silica as an electrode material. Microporous Mesoporous Mater 2010;132(3):421-7.
112. Menna E, Negra FD, Prato M, Tagmatarchis N, Ciogli A, Gasparrini F, et al. Carbon nanotubes on HPLC silica microspheres. Carbon 2006;44(8):1609-13.
113. AndréC, Aljhni R, Lethier L, Guillaume Y. Carbon nanotube poroshell silica as a novel stationary phase for fast HPLC analysis of monoclonal antibodies. Anal Bioanal Chem 2014;406(3):905-9.
114. Itkis ME, Borondics F, Yu A, Haddon RC. Bolometric infrared photoresponse of suspended single-walled carbon nanotube films. Science 2006;312(5772):413-6.
115. Lu R, Li Z, Xu G, Wu JZ. Suspending single-wall carbon nanotube thin film infrared bolometers on microchannels. Appl Phys Lett 2009;94(16):163110.
116. Cao A, Dickrell PL, Sawyer WG, Ghasemi-Nejhad MN, Ajayan PM. Super-compressible foamlike carbon nanotube films. Science 2005;310(5752):1307-10.
117. Xiao L, Chen Z, Feng C, Liu L, Bai Z-Q, Wang Y, et al. Flexible, stretchable, transparent carbon nanotube thin film loudspeakers. Nano Lett 2008;8(12):4539-45.
118. Zhang M, Fang S, Zakhidov AA, Lee SB, Aliev AE, Williams CD, et al. Strong, transparent, multifunctional, carbon nanotube sheets. Science 2005;309(5738):1215-9.
119. Skákalová V, Kaiser AB, Woo YS, Roth S. Electronic transport in carbon nanotubes: from individual nanotubes to thin and thick networks. Phys Rev B 2006;74(8):085403.
120. Jack DA, Yeh CS, Liang Z, Li S, Park JG, Fielding JC. Electrical conductivity modeling and experimental study of densely packed SWCNT networks. Nanotechnology 2010;21(19):195703.
121. Rahatekar SS, Koziol KK, Kline SR, Hobbie EK, Gilman JW, Windle AH. Length-dependent mechanics of carbonnanotube networks. Adv Mater 2009;21(8):874-8.
122. Sano M, Kamino A, Okamura J, Shinkai S. Noncovalent selfassembly of carbon nanotubes for construction of ''cages''. Nano Lett 2002;2(5):531-3.
123. Correa-Duarte MA, Kosiorek A, Kandulski W, Giersig M, Liz-Marzán LM. Layer-by-layer assembly of multiwall carbon nanotubes on spherical colloids. Chem Mater 2005;17(12):3268-72.
124. Ji L, Ma J, Zhao C, Wei W, Wang X, Yang M, et al. Porous hollow carbon nanotube composite cages. Chem Commun 2006;11:1206-8.
125. Tang M, Qin Y, Wang Y, Guo Z-X. Hollow carbon nanotube microspheres and hemimicrospheres. J Phys Chem C 2009;113(5):1666-71.
126. Fukushima T, Kosaka A, Ishimura Y, Yamamoto T, Takigawa T, Ishii N, et al. Molecular ordering of organic molten salts triggered by single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science 2003;300(5628):2072-4.
127. Fukushima T, Asaka K, Kosaka A, Aida T. Fully plastic actuator through layer-by-layer casting with ionic-liquidbased bucky gel. Angew Chem Int Ed 2005;44(16):2410-3.
128. Sekitani T, Noguchi Y, Hata K, Fukushima T, Aida T, Someya T. A rubberlike stretchable active matrix using elastic conductors. Science 2008;321(5895):1468-72.
129. Mukai K, Asaka K, Sugino T, Kiyohara K, Takeuchi I, Terasawa N, et al. Highly conductive sheets from millimeter-long single-walled carbon nanotubes and ionic liquids: application to fast-moving, low-voltage electromechanical actuators operable in air. Adv Mater 2009;21(16):1582-5.
130. Acquah SFA, Ventura DN, Kroto HW. Strategies to successfully cross-link carbon nanotubes, In: Prof. Jose Mauricio Marulanda, editor. Electronic properties of carbon nanotubes. ISBN: 978-953-307-499-3, InTech; 2011. DOI: 10.5772/17613. Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/electronic-properties-of-carbon-nanotubes/strategies-to-successfully-cross-link-carbon-nanotubes.
131. Filleter T, Bernal R, Li S, Espinosa HD. Ultrahigh strength and stiffness in cross-linked hierarchical carbon nanotube bundles. Adv Mater 2011;23(25):2855-60.
132. Fonseca AF, Borders T, Baughman RH, Cho KJ. Load transfer between cross-linked walls of a carbon nanotube. Phys Rev B 2010;81(4):045429.
133. Kis A, Csanyi G, Salvetat JP, Lee TN, Couteau E, Kulik AJ, et al. Reinforcement of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles by intertube bridging. Nat Mater 2004;3(3):153-7.
134. Peng B, Locascio M, Zapol P, Li SY, Mielke SL, Schatz GC, et al. Measurements of near-ultimate strength for multiwalled carbon nanotubes and irradiation-induced crosslinking improvements. Nat Nanotechnol 2008;3(10):626-31.
135. Holzinger M, Steinmetz J, Samaille D, Glerup M, Paillet M, Bernier P, et al. [2+1] cycloaddition for cross-linking SWCNTs. Carbon 2004;42(5-6):941-7.
136. Yun DQ, Feng W, Wu HC, Li BM, Liu XZ, Yi WH, et al. Controllable functionalization of single-wall carbon nanotubes by in situ polymerization method for organic photovoltaic devices. Synth Met 2008;158(21-24):977-83.
137. Satti A, Perret A, McCarthy JE, Gun'ko YK. Covalent crosslinking of single-walled carbon nanotubes with poly(allylamine) to produce mechanically robust composites. J Mater Chem 2010;20(37):7941-3.
138. Chen IWP, Liang R, Zhao H, Wang B, Zhang C. Highly conductive carbon nanotube buckypapers with improved doping stability via conjugational cross-linking. Nanotechnology 2011;22(48):485708.
139. Ventura DN, Stone RA, Chen KS, Hariri HH, Riddle KA, Fellers TJ, et al. Assembly of cross-linked multi-walled carbon nanotube mats. Carbon 2010;48(4):987-94.
140. Vasiliev I, Curran SA. Cross linking of thiolated carbon nanotubes: an ab initio study. J Appl Phys 2007;102(2):024317.
141. Cha SI, Kim KT, Lee KH, Mo CB, Jeong YJ, Hong SH. Mechanical and electrical properties of cross-linked carbon nanotubes. Carbon 2008;46(3):482-8.
142. Sato Y, Ootsubo M, Yamamoto G, Van Lier G, Terrones M, Hashiguchi S, et al. Super-robust, lightweight, conducting carbon nanotube blocks cross-linked by de-fluorination. ACS Nano 2008;2(2):348-56.
143. Chen Z, Kobashi K, Rauwald U, Booker R, Fan H, HwangW-F, et al. Soluble ultra-short single-walled carbon nanotubes. J Am Chem Soc 2006;128(32):10568-71.
144. Kharisov BI, Kharissova OV, Leija Gutierrez H, Ortiz Méndez U. Recent advances on the soluble carbon nanotubes. Ind Eng Chem Res 2008;48(2):572-90.
145. Piao Y, Meany B, Powell LR, Valley N, Kwon H, Schatz GC, et al. Brightening of carbon nanotube photoluminescence through the incorporation of sp(3) defects. Nat Chem 2013;5(10):840-5.
146. Hellstrom SL, Lee HW, Bao Z. Polymer-assisted direct deposition of uniform carbon nanotube bundle networks for high performance transparent electrodes. ACS Nano 2009;3(6):1423-30.
147. Liu J, Casavant MJ, Cox M, Walters DA, Boul P, Lu W, et al. Controlled deposition of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes on chemically functionalized templates. Chem Phys Lett 1999;303(1-2):125-9.
148. Friddle RW, Lemieux MC, Cicero G, Artyukhin AB, Tsukruk VV, Grossman JC, et al. Single functional group interactions with individual carbon nanotubes. Nat Nanotechnol 2007;2(11):692-7.
149. Lucas A, Zakri C, Maugey M, Pasquali M, Schoot Pvd, Poulin P. Kinetics of nanotube and microfiber scission under sonication. J Phys Chem C 2009;113(48):20599-605.
150. Jung Y, Li X, Rajan NK, Taylor AD, Reed MA. Record high efficiency single-walled carbon nanotube/silicon p-n junction solar cells. Nano Lett 2013;13(1):95-9.
151. Trancik JE, Barton SC, Hone J. Transparent and catalytic carbon nanotube films. Nano Lett 2008;8(4):982-7.
152. Srivastava A, Srivastava ON, Talapatra S, Vajtai R, Ajayan PM. Carbon nanotube filters. Nat Mater 2004;3(9):610-4.
153. Hinds BJ, Chopra N, Rantell T, Andrews R, Gavalas V, Bachas LG. Aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube membranes. Science 2004;303(5654):62-5.
154. Holt JK, Park HG, Wang Y, Stadermann M, Artyukhin AB, Grigoropoulos CP, et al. Fast mass transport through sub-2-nanometer carbon nanotubes. Science 2006;312(5776):1034-7.
155. Sweetman LJ, Nghiem L, Chironi I, Triani G, in het Panhuis M, Ralph SF. Synthesis, properties and water permeability of SWNT buckypapers. J Mater Chem 2012;22(27):13800-10.
156. Heo J, Kim H, Her N, Lee S, Park Y-G, Yoon Y. Natural organic matter removal in single-walled carbon nanotubes-ultrafiltration membrane systems. Desalination 2012;298:75-84.
157. Heo J, Flora JRV, Her N, Park Y-G, Cho J, Son A, et al. Removal of bisphenol A and 17b-estradiol in single walled carbon nanotubes-ultrafiltration (SWNTs-UF) membrane systems. Sep Purif Technol 2012;90:39-52.
158. Brooks AJ, Lim H-n, Kilduff JE. Adsorption uptake of synthetic organic chemicals by carbon nanotubes and activated carbons. Nanotechnology 2012;23(29):294008.
159. Vecitis CD, Zodrow KR, Kang S, Elimelech M. Electronicstructure-dependent bacterial cytotoxicity of single-walled carbon nanotubes. ACS Nano 2010;4(9):5471-9.
160. Zhao F, Qiu F, Zhang X, Yu S, Kim H-S, Park H-D, et al. Preparation of single-walled carbon nanotubes/polyvinylchloride membrane and its antibacterial property. Water Sci Technol 2012;66(11):2275-83.
161. Ahmed F, Santos CM, Vergara RAMV, Tria MCR, Advincula R, Rodrigues DF. Antimicrobial applications of electroactive PVK-SWNT nanocomposites. Environ Sci Technol 2012;46(3):1804-10.
162. Ramesh P, Itkis ME, Tang JM, Haddon RC. SWNT-MWNT hybrid architecture for proton exchange membrane fuel cell cathodes. J Phys Chem C 2008;112(24):9089-94.
163. Yang D, Liu Q, Li H, Gao C. Molecular simulation of carbon nanotube membrane for Li+ and Mg2+ separation. J Membr Sci 2013;444:327-31.
164. Novak JP, Snow ES, Houser EJ, Park D, Stepnowski JL, McGill RA. Nerve agent detection using networks of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Appl Phys Lett 2003;83(19):4026-8.
165. Kim Y, Lee S, Choi HH, Noh J-S, Lee W. Detection of a nerve agent simulant using single-walled carbon nanotube networks: dimethyl-methyl-phosphonate. Nanotechnology 2010;21(49):495501.
166. Boccaccini AR, Chicatun F, Cho J, Bretcanu O, Roether JA, Novak S, et al. Carbon nanotube coatings on bioglass-based tissue engineering scaffolds. Adv Funct Mater 2007;17(15):2815-22.
167. Balani K, Anderson R, Laha T, Andara M, Tercero J, Crumpler E, et al. Plasma-sprayed carbon nanotube reinforced hydroxyapatite coatings and their interaction with human osteoblasts in vitro. Biomaterials 2007;28(4):618-24.
168. Hirata E, Uo M, Takita H, Akasaka T, Watari F, Yokoyama A. Development of a 3D collagen scaffold coated with multiwalled carbon nanotubes. J Biomed Mater Res B 2009;90B(2):629-34.
169. Meng D, Ioannou J, Boccaccini A. Bioglass®-based scaffolds with carbon nanotube coating for bone tissue engineering. J Mater Sci-Mater Med 2009;20(10):2139-44.
170. Gruner G. Carbon nanotube transistors for biosensing applications. Anal Bioanal Chem 2006;384(2):322-35.
171. Balasubramanian K, Burghard M. Biosensors based on carbon nanotubes. Anal Bioanal Chem 2006;385(3):452-68.
172. Nepal D, Balasubramanian S, Simonian AL, Davis VA. Strong antimicrobial coatings: single-walled carbon nanotubes armored with biopolymers. Nano Lett 2008;8(7):1896-901.
173. Hirata E, Uo M, Takita H, Akasaka T, Watari F, Yokoyama A. Multiwalled carbon nanotube-coating of 3D collagen scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. Carbon 2011;49(10):3284-91.
174. Kalbacova M, Kalbac M, Dunsch L, Kromka A, Vanecek M, Rezek B, et al. The effect of SWCNT and nano-diamond films on human osteoblast cells. Phys Status Solidi B 2007;244(11):4356-9.
175. Li X, Liu X, Huang J, Fan Y, Cui F-z. Biomedical investigation of CNT based coatings. Surf Coat Technol 2011;206(4):759-66.
176. Sui J, Zhang Y, Ren S, Rinke M, Lu J, Jia J. Carbon coating with combined super-hydrophobic and self-lubricating properties on titanium silicon carbide. Carbon 2009;47(3):629-34.
177. Zhou Y, Wang B, Zhang X, Zhao M, Li E, Yan H. The modifications of the surface wettability of amorphous carbon films. Colloids Surf A 2009;335(1-3):128-32.
178. Wang S, Zhang Y, Abidi N, Cabrales L. Wettability and surface free energy of graphene films. Langmuir 2009;25(18):11078-81.
179. Zhang X, Wan S, Pu J, Wang L, Liu X. Highly hydrophobic and adhesive performance of graphene films. J Mater Chem 2011;21(33):12251-8.
180. Lau KKS, Bico J, Teo KBK, Chhowalla M, Amaratunga GAJ, Milne WI, et al. Superhydrophobic carbon nanotube forests. Nano Lett 2003;3(12):1701-5.
181. Yang J, Zhang Z, Men X, Xu X, Zhu X. Reversible superhydrophobicity to superhydrophilicity switching of a carbon nanotube film via alternation of UV irradiation and dark storage. Langmuir 2010;26(12):10198-202.
182. Shakerzadeh M, Teo HE, Tan C, Tay BK. Superhydrophobic carbon nanotube/amorphous carbon nanosphere hybrid film. Diamond Relat Mater 2009;18(10):1235-8.
183. Srinivasan S, Praveen VK, Philip R, Ajayaghosh A. Bioinspired superhydrophobic coatings of carbon nanotubes and linear pi systems based on the ''bottom-up'' self-assembly approach. Angew Chem Int Ed 2008;47(31):5750-4.
184. Dimitrakopoulos CD, Malenfant PRL. Organic thin film transistors for large area electronics. Adv Mater 2002;14(2):99-117.
185. Duan XF, Niu CM, Sahi V, Chen J, Parce JW, Empedocles S, et al. High-performance thin-film transistors using semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons. Nature 2003;425(6955):274-8.
186. Cao Q, Kim HS, Pimparkar N, Kulkarni JP, Wang CJ, Shim M, et al. Medium-scale carbon nanotube thin-film integrated circuits on flexible plastic substrates. Nature 2008;454(7203):495-500.
187. Schwierz F. Graphene transistors. Nat Nanotechnol 2010;5(7):487-96.
188. An L, Fu Q, Lu C, Liu J. A simple chemical route to selectively eliminate metallic carbon nanotubes in nanotube network devices. J Am Chem Soc 2004;126(34):10520-1.
189. Li S, Liu C, Hou P-X, Sun D-M, Cheng H-M. Enrichment of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes by carbothermic reaction for use in all-nanotube field effect transistors. ACS Nano 2012;6(11):9657-61.
190. LeMieux MC, Sok S, Roberts ME, Opatkiewicz JP, Liu D, Barman SN, et al. Solution assembly of organized carbon nanotube networks for thin-film transistors. ACS Nano 2009;3(12):4089-97.
191. Vijayaraghavan A, Kanzaki K, Suzuki S, Kobayashi Y, Inokawa H, Ono Y, et al. Metal-semiconductor transition in single-walled carbon nanotubes induced by low-energy electron irradiation. Nano Lett 2005;5(8):1575-9.
192. Gomez LM, Kumar A, Zhang Y, Ryu K, Badmaev A, Zhou C. Scalable light-induced metal to semiconductor conversion of carbon nanotubes. Nano Lett 2009;9(10):3592-8.
193. Collins PG, Arnold MS, Avouris P. Engineering carbon nanotubes and nanotube circuits using electrical breakdown. Science 2001;292(5517):706-9.
194. Ryu K, Badmaev A, Wang C, Lin A, Patil N, Gomez L, et al. CMOS-analogous wafer-scale nanotube-on-insulator approach for submicrometer devices and integrated circuits using aligned nanotubes. Nano Lett 2008;9(1):189-97.
195. Zhang H, Wu B, Hu W, Liu Y. Separation and/or selective enrichment of single-walled carbon nanotubes based on their electronic properties. Chem Soc Rev 2011;40(3):1324-36.
196. Rouhi N, Jain D, Burke PJ. High-performance semiconducting nanotube inks: progress and prospects. ACS Nano 2011;5(11):8471-87.
197. Wang C, Takei K, Takahashi T, Javey A. Carbon nanotube electronics-moving forward. Chem Soc Rev 2013;42(7):2592-609.
198. Chen Z, Li W, Li R, Zhang Y, Xu G, Cheng H. Fabrication of highly transparent and conductive indium-tin oxide thin films with a high figure of merit via solution processing. Langmuir 2013;29(45):13836-42.
199. Ellmer K. Past achievements and future challenges in the development of optically transparent electrodes. Nat Photonics 2012;6(12):808-16.
200. King PJ, Khan U, Lotya M, De S, Coleman JN. Improvement of transparent conducting nanotube films by addition of small quantities of graphene. ACS Nano 2010;4(7): 4238-46.
201. Rowell MW, Topinka MA, McGehee MD, Prall HJ, Dennler G, Sariciftci NS, et al. Organic solar cells with carbon nanotube network electrodes. Appl Phys Lett 2006;88(23):233506.
202. Barnes TM, Bergeson JD, Tenent RC, Larsen BA, Teeter G, Jones KM, et al. Carbon nanotube network electrodes enabling efficient organic solar cells without a hole transport layer. Appl Phys Lett 2010;96(24):243309.
203. Sgobba V, Guldi DM. Carbon nanotubes as integrative materials for organic photovoltaic devices. J Mater Chem 2008;18(2):153-7.
204. Pasquier AD, Unalan HE, Kanwal A, Miller S, Chhowalla M. Conducting and transparent single-wall carbon nanotube electrodes for polymer-fullerene solar cells. Appl Phys Lett 2005;87(20):203511.
205. Li Z, Kunets VP, Saini V, Xu Y, Dervishi E, Salamo GJ, et al. Light-harvesting using high density p-type single wall carbon nanotube/n-type silicon heterojunctions. ACS Nano 2009;3(6):1407-14.
206. Jia Y, Li PX, Gui XC, Wei JQ, Wang KL, Zhu HW, et al. Encapsulated carbon nanotube-oxide-silicon solar cells with stable 10% efficiency. Appl Phys Lett 2011;98(13):133115.
207. Wadhwa P, Liu B, McCarthy MA, Wu Z, Rinzler AG. Electronic junction control in a nanotube-semiconductor Schottky junction solar cell. Nano Lett 2010;10(12):5001-5.
208. Wadhwa P, Seol G, Petterson MK, Guo J, Rinzler AG. Electrolyte-induced inversion layer Schottky junction solar cells. Nano Lett 2011;11(6):2419-23.
209. Tune DD, Flavel BS, Krupke R, Shapter JG. Carbon nanotubesilicon solar cells. Adv Energy Mater 2012;2(9):1043-55.
210. Lee WJ, Ramasamy E, Lee DY, Song JS. Efficient dyesensitized solar cells with catalytic multiwall carbon nanotube counter electrodes. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2009;1(6):1145-9.
211. Noureldine D, Shoker T, Musameh M, Ghaddar TH. Investigation of carbon nanotube webs as counter electrodes in a new organic electrolyte based dye sensitized solar cell. J Mater Chem 2012;22(3):862-9.
212. Thomas S, Deepak TG, Anjusree GS, Arun TA, Nair SV, Nair AS. A review on counter electrode materials in dyesensitized solar cells. J Mater Chem A 2014;2(13):4474-90.
213. Shea MJ, Arnold MS. 1% solar cells derived from ultrathin carbon nanotube photoabsorbing films. Appl Phys Lett 2013;102(24):243101.
214. Jain RM, Howden R, Tvrdy K, Shimizu S, Hilmer AJ, McNicholas TP, et al. Polymer-free near-infrared photovoltaics with single chirality (6, 5) semiconducting carbon nanotube active layers. Adv Mater 2012;24(32):4436-9.
215. Arnold MS, Blackburn JL, Crochet JJ, Doorn SK, Duque JG, Mohite A, et al. Recent developments in the photophysics of single-walled carbon nanotubes for their use as active and passive material elements in thin film photovoltaics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013;15(36):14896-918.
216. Ramuz MP, Vosgueritchian M, Wei P, Wang C, Gao Y, Wu Y, et al. Evaluation of solution-processable carbon-based electrodes for all-carbon solar cells. ACS Nano 2012;6(11):10384-95.
217. Pénicaud A, Poulin P, DerréA, Anglaret E, Petit P. Spontaneous dissolution of a single-wall carbon nanotube salt. J Am Chem Soc 2004;127(1):8-9.
218. Fogden S, Howard CA, Heenan RK, Skipper NT, Shaffer MSP. Scalable Method for the Reductive Dissolution, Purification, and Separation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. ACS Nano 2011;6(1):54-62.
219. Carbon Nanotubes. 2014. http://www.lindegas.com/en/products-and-supply/electronic-gases-and-chemicals/carbon-nanotubes/index.html.
220. Harris JM, Iyer GRS, Bernhardt AK, Huh JY, Hudson SD, Fagan JA, et al. Electronic durability of flexible tranparent films from type-specific single-wall carbon nanotubes. ACS Nano 2012;6(1):881-7.
221. Harris JM, Huh JY, Semler MR, Ihle T, Stafford CM, Hudson SD, et al. Elasticity and rigidigy percolation in flexible carbon nanotube films on PDMS substrates. Soft Matter 2013;9:11568-75.
222. Lin X, Liu P, Wei Y, Li Q, Wang J, Wu Y, et al. Development of an ultra-thin film comprised of a graphene membrane and carbon nanotube vein support. Nat Commun 2013;4:2920.
223. Yan Z, Peng Z, Casillas G, Lin J, Xiang C, Zhou H, et al. Rebar graphene. ACS Nano 2014;8(5):5061-8.
224. De Volder MFL, Tawfick SH, Baughman RH, Hart AJ. Carbon nanotubes: present and future commercial applications. Science 2013;339(6119):535-9.