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Nanoengineering of Carbon Nanotubes and the Status of its Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Yoshikazu Nakayama  and
Seiji Akita
Yoshikazu Nakayama
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
Seiji Akita
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
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Abstract

We have developed a well-controlled method for manipulating carbon nanotubes. The first crucial process involved is to prepare a nanotube array, named nanotube cartridge. We have found the ac electrophoresis of nanotubes by which nanotubes are aligned at the knife-edge. The nanotubes used were multiwalled and prepared by an arc discharge with a relatively high gas temperature. The second important process is to transfer a nanotube from the nanotube cartridge onto a substrate in a scanning electron microscope. Using this method, we have developed nanotube tips and nanotube tweezers that operate in a scanning probe microscope. The nanotube probes have been applied for observation of biological samples and industrial samples to clarify their advantages. The nanotube tweezers have demonstrated their motion in scanning-electron-microscope and operated to carry nanomaterials in a scanning probe microscope.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 706: Symposium Z – Making Functional Materials with Nanotubes , 2001 , Z11.1.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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