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Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Furuta

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School of Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan
Interests: carbon nanotubes; graphene; low-dimensional materials; metamaterials; energy storage and conversion materials; neuromorphic materials; thin film technology; field emission
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will aims to publish original research and review articles related to carbon related and low-dimensional nanomaterials. Research topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Fabrication and characterization techniques, and applications of carbon related and low-dimensional nanomaterials;
Structural, electonic, magnetic, and optical properties carbon related and low-dimensional nanomaterials;

This Special Issue will portray the state of carbon-related and emerging low-dimensional nanomaterials research and will more clearly present the progress in this field of nano-scale science and technologies, with the hope of promoting communication and collaboration among researchers in this field worldwide.

Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Furuta
Guest Editor

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Keywords

graphene
carbon nanotubes
layered III–VI metal chalcogenides
low-dimensional semiconductor nanomaterials
low-dimensional photovoltaic nanomaterials
low-dimensional electron nanomaterials
low-dimensional optical nanomaterials

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Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceArticle

Impact of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Functionalization on Ion and Water Molecule Transport at the Nanoscale

by Alia Mejri, Nicolas Arroyo, Guillaume Herlem, John Palmeri, Manoel Manghi, François Henn and Fabien Picaud

Nanomaterials 2024, 14(1), 117; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14010117 - 03 Jan 2024

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Nanofluidics has a very promising future owing to its numerous applications in many domains. It remains, however, very difficult to understand the basic physico-chemical principles that control the behavior of solvents confined in nanometric channels. Here, water and ion transport in carbon nanotubes is investigated using classical force field molecular dynamics simulations. By combining one single walled carbon nanotube (uniformly charged or not) with two perforated graphene sheets, we mimic single nanopore devices similar to experimental ones. The graphitic edges delimit two reservoirs of water and ions in the simulation cell from which a voltage is imposed through the application of an external electric field. By analyzing the evolution of the electrolyte conductivity, the role of the carbon nanotube geometric parameters (radius and chirality) and of the functionalization of the carbon nanotube entrances with OH or COO⁻ groups is investigated for different concentrations of group functions. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Carbon Related and Low-Dimensional Functional Nanomaterials)

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Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceArticle

CNT-PUFs: Highly Robust and Heat-Tolerant Carbon-Nanotube-Based Physical Unclonable Functions

by Florian Frank, Simon Böttger, Nico Mexis, Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, Ali Mohamed, Martin Hartmann, Harald Kuhn, Christian Helke, Tolga Arul, Stefan Katzenbeisser and Sascha Hermann

Nanomaterials 2023, 13(22), 2930; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13222930 - 11 Nov 2023

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In this work, we explored a highly robust and unique Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) based on the stochastic assembly of single-walled Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) integrated within a wafer-level technology. Our work demonstrated that the proposed CNT-based PUFs are exceptionally robust with an average [...] Read more.

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. We attributed the excellent heat tolerance to comparatively low activation energies of less than 40 meV extracted from an Arrhenius plot. As the number of unstable bits in the examined implementation is extremely low, our devices allow for a lightweight and simple error correction, just by selecting stable cells, thereby diminishing the need for complex error correction. Through a significant number of tests, we demonstrated the capability of novel nanomaterial devices to serve as highly efficient hardware security primitives. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Carbon Related and Low-Dimensional Functional Nanomaterials)

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