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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
22
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-11-13
pubmed:abstractText
Films of chemically shortened and functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been formed on a gold electrode by electrophoretic deposition. Applying ultrasonic energy resulted in dramatic changes of the film morphology; the deposited SWNT bundles reassembled and oriented normal to the electrode. Oriented SWNT bundles with high density (more than 250 bundles/microm (2)) not only presented narrow size distributions, but uniformly spread on the electrode. We discuss the mechanism of SWNT orientation by analyzing the variation in the film morphology with ultrasonication time. In addition, we suggest that the 3D displays of AFM images can lead to misjudgment of nanotube alignment. The method for aligning SWNTs normal to the electrode may be competitive with chemical vapor deposition or screen printing, the predominant methods by which vertically aligned SWNT films have been fabricated to date.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0743-7463
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
12936-42
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Vertical alignment of single-walled carbon nanotube films formed by electrophoretic deposition.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article