Making Functional Materials with Nanotubes

The possible use of carbon nanotubes in macroscale structures and microdevices has been demonstrated based on their exceptional mechanical, electronic and chemical properties. The field is growing with a strong interdisciplinary focus spanning domains of solid-state physics and chemistry, materials engineering, composites, and biosystems. Potential applications for nanotubes range from nanoelectronics to high-strength composites, field-emission displays and hydrogen-storage materials. This book, first published in 2002, focuses on the design, production and understanding of nanotube-based materials, structures, and devices. Contributions address controlled synthesis routes producing either bulk quantities of nanotubes or organized nanotube arrays designed for specific applications and post-synthesis processing of nanotubes, during which the as-produced nanotubes are manipulated into elaborate nano- to macroscale systems. Topics include: progress in synthesis and processing; synthesis, processing and polymer composites; nanotube-polymer composites; nanotubes for field emission; characterization, field emission and electronic devices; characterization of nanotube systems - limits and challenges; modeling and simulations of nanotube systems; energy storage, electrode applications and chemical modifications; electrode applications and chemical modifications of nanotubes and nanotube-based devices.