Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Preparation to Device Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 411
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a typical one-dimensional nanomaterial, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have exhibited excellent physical and chemical properties due to their unique atomic structures and quantum size effect. In particular, SWCNTs behave as semiconducting or metallic properties depending on their diameter and chirality, and semiconducting SWCNTs have a chirality-depended bandgap. The interband transitions between van Hove singularities determine specific electronic and optoelectronic properties of SWCNTs. Moreover, the interface interactions between SWCNTs and molecules (or photons) are totally different from those of other nanomaterials owing to only surface atoms on SWCNTs. Therefore, SWCNTs are prospective candidates for fabricating high-performance nanodevices. As we all know, the performance of SWCNT-based nanodevices has been mainly affected by the purity and chirality of SWCNTs. In particular, the existence of SWCNTs with different chiralities seriously limits the further development of high-performance SWCNT-based nanodevices. Thus, the controllable synthesis techniques of SWCNTs with desired diameter or chirality have been highly desired, especially in the past ten years, as has an in-depth understanding of the fundamental properties of SWCNTs.
Therefore, the main purpose of this Special Issue, entitled “Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Preparation to Device Applications”, presents recent state-of-the-art research on the properties, synthesis, characterization, and device applications of SWCNTs. It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue. Full experimental and theoretical research papers, communications, and review articles are all welcome.
Dr. Yanjie Su
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- synthesis methods
- chirality enrichment
- characterization techniques
- electronic, optical, and chemical properties
- heterostructures
- device fabrications
- nanoelectronics
- photoelectric devices
- gas/vapor sensors
- biosensing devices
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