Carbon Nanotubes and Their Applications Jenny Stanford Series on Carbon-Based Nanomaterials Series

This book overviews the current status of research and development activities of CNTs in nanodevices, nanomaterials, or nanofabrication. This book presents 15 state-of-the-art review articles that cover CNT synthesis technologies for growing highly orientated CNTs, chirality-pure CNTs and CNTs at a large throughput and low cost, CNT assembly techniques, CNT sorting and separation processes, CNT functionalization engineering for more functionalities, CNT fundamental properties and their practical/potential electrical, electronic, optical, mechanical, chemical and biological applications.

Fundamental Properties of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs). Synthesis of CNTs. Assembly of CNTs Towards Practical Applications. Separation of Metallic and Semiconducting Single Walled CNTs. Electronic Applications of Single Walled CNTs. Transistors Based on CNT Random Networks. From Bulk Tunneling Field Effect Transistors to CNT-Tunneling Field Effect Transistors — Status and Trends. CNT Field Emission Technology for Vacuum Electronic Device Applications. Novel Magnetic and Electrical Properties of CNTs-Consistent with Ultrahigh Temperature Superconductivity. CNT Based Biosensors. CNTs based Gas Sensors — A State of the Art. CNTs and Their Composites for Viscoelastic Applications. Toward Multifunctional CNT Fibers. Mechanical Applications of CNTs. Nonlinear Optical Properties and the Relevant Potential Applications of CNTs.

Dr. Qing Zhang is an associate professor at Microelectronics Division, School of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Since 1996, he has been studying carbon-based materials, including CVD diamond and diamond-like carbon. From 1999, he has gradually focused his research on carbon nanotube (CNT)-related unique physical phenomena and electronic devices. In the field of CNT, Dr. Zhang and his group have extended their research to electron transport properties, charge trapping/transfer between CNTs and metal electrodes/adsorbed atomic and molecular species, thermal properties, and a variety of CNT electronic devices, including logic gates and simple circuits, pressure sensors, NH3 sensors, glucose sensors, nitrophenol sensors, and organophosphate compound sensors. Dr. Zhang has published more than 180 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers, and 61 of them address the properties and devices of CNTs.