ABSTRACT
Pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have very low defect concentrations and high length to diameter aspect ratios, which lends them to a wide variety of applications. CNTs have drawn a large amount of interest in the molecular electronics research field. Interactions between the nanotube and the substrate create states within the SWCNT band gap and cause deviations from ideality. A major difficulty in implementing CNT field effect transistors is the large variety of SWCNTs created during synthesis of these nanostructures. As carbon is a low elemental weight atom, SWCNTs potentially can be used to meet the Department of Energy’s standards for hydrogen storage. Lower temperatures have been shown to increase adsorption and chemical modification of the SWCNT sidewalls has been proposed. Carbon nanotubes have shown great promise for the advancement of many existing technological applications and for the development of novel devices and architectures.
