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Functional materials based on carbon nanotubes: Carbon nanotube actuators and noncovalent carbon nanotube modification.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Functional materials based on carbon nanotubes: Carbon nanotube actuators and noncovalent carbon nanotube modification./
Author:	Fifield, Leonard S.
Description:	203 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: B, page: 5492.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11B.
Subject:	Chemistry, Analytical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3111062

Functional materials based on carbon nanotubes: Carbon nanotube actuators and noncovalent carbon nanotube modification.
Fifield, Leonard S.

Functional materials based on carbon nanotubes: Carbon nanotube actuators and noncovalent carbon nanotube modification. - 203 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: B, page: 5492.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2003.

Carbon nanotubes have attractive inherent properties that encourage the development of new functional materials and devices based on them. The use of single wall carbon nanotubes as electromechanical actuators takes advantage of the high mechanical strength, surface area and electrical conductivity intrinsic to these molecules. The work presented here investigates the mechanisms that have been discovered for actuation of carbon nanotube paper: electrostatic, quantum chemical charge injection, pneumatic and viscoelastic. A home-built apparatus for the measurement of actuation strain is developed and utilized in the investigation. An optical fiber switch, the first demonstrated macro-scale device based on the actuation of carbon nanotubes, is described and its performance evaluated. Also presented here is a new general process designed to modify the surface of carbon nanotubes in a non-covalent, non-destructive way. This method can be used to impart new functionalities to carbon nanotube samples for a variety of applications including sensing, solar energy conversion and chemical separation. The process described involves the achievement of large degrees of graphitic surface coverage with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons through the use of supercritical fluids. These molecules are bifunctional agents that anchor a desired chemical group to the aromatic surface of the carbon nanotubes without adversely disrupting the conjugated backbone that gives rise the attractive electronic and physical properties of the nanotubes. Both the nanotube functionalization work and the actuator work presented here emphasize how an understanding and control of nanoscale structure and phenomena can be of vital importance in achieving desired performance for active materials. Opportunities for new devices with improved function over current state-of-the-art can be envisioned and anticipated based on this understanding and control.Subjects--Topical Terms:

586156
Chemistry, Analytical.

Functional materials based on carbon nanotubes: Carbon nanotube actuators and noncovalent carbon nanotube modification.
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