Carbon nanotubes and fullerenes articles within Nature

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• Article | 13 March 2024

  High-speed and large-scale intrinsically stretchable integrated circuits

  High-density, intrinsically stretchable transistors with high driving ability and integrated circuits with high operation speed and large-scale integration were enabled by a combination of innovations in materials, fabrication process design, device engineering and circuit design.

  • Donglai Zhong
  • , Can Wu
  •  & Zhenan Bao

• Article | 11 January 2023

  Long-range ordered porous carbons produced from C₆₀

  A new type of carbon, long-range ordered porous carbon, is synthesized from carbon fullerenes at the gram scale and under ambient pressure.

  • Fei Pan
  • , Kun Ni
  •  & Yanwu Zhu

• Article | 04 January 2023

  A few-layer covalent network of fullerenes

  A two-dimensional crystalline polymer of C₆₀, termed graphullerene, is synthesized by chemical vapour transport, and mechanically exfoliated to produce molecularly thin flakes with clean interfaces for potential optoelectronic applications.

  • Elena Meirzadeh
  • , Austin M. Evans
  •  & Xavier Roy

• Article | 02 February 2022

  Fluctuation-induced quantum friction in nanoscale water flows

  The quantum contribution to friction enables the rationalization of the peculiar friction properties of water on carbon surfaces, and in particular the radius dependence of slippage in carbon nanotubes.

  • Nikita Kavokine
  • , Marie-Laure Bocquet
  •  & Lydéric Bocquet

• Article | 24 November 2021

  Ultrahard bulk amorphous carbon from collapsed fullerene

  Preparing amorphous phases of carbon with mostly sp³ bonding in bulk is challenging, but macroscopic samples that are nearly pure sp³ are synthesized here by heating fullerenes at high pressure.

  • Yuchen Shang
  • , Zhaodong Liu
  •  & Bingbing Liu

• Article | 28 August 2019

  Modern microprocessor built from complementary carbon nanotube transistors

  A 16-bit microprocessor built from over 14,000 carbon nanotube transistors may enable energy efficiency advances in electronics technologies beyond silicon.

  • Gage Hills
  • , Christian Lau
  •  & Max M. Shulaker

• Letter | 21 January 2019

  Real-time vibrations of a carbon nanotube

  The thermal vibrations of a carbon nanotube are directly measured in real time with high displacement sensitivity and fine time resolution, revealing dynamics undetected by previous time-averaged measurements.

  • Arthur W. Barnard
  • , Mian Zhang
  •  & Paul L. McEuen

• Letter | 15 February 2017

  Arrays of horizontal carbon nanotubes of controlled chirality grown using designed catalysts

  Horizontal arrays of metallic or semiconducting carbon nanotubes with controlled chirality are grown from specially designed solid carbide catalysts.

  • Shuchen Zhang
  • , Lixing Kang
  •  & Jin Zhang

• Letter | 07 September 2016

  Massive radius-dependent flow slippage in carbon nanotubes

  The pressure-driven flow rate through individual carbon nanotubes is precisely determined from the hydrodynamics of emerging water jets, revealing unexpectedly large and radius-dependent surface slippage.

  • Eleonora Secchi
  • , Sophie Marbach
  •  & Lydéric Bocquet

• Letter | 06 August 2014

  Controlled synthesis of single-chirality carbon nanotubes

  Present preparation methods fail to meet fully the demand for structurally pure single-walled carbon nanotubes; surface-catalysed cyclodehydrogenation reactions are now shown to convert precursor molecules deposited on a platinum(111) surface into ultrashort nanotube seeds that can then be grown further into defect-free and structurally pure single-walled carbon nanotubes of single chirality.

  • Juan Ramon Sanchez-Valencia
  • , Thomas Dienel
  •  & Roman Fasel

• Letter | 25 June 2014

  Chirality-specific growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on solid alloy catalysts

  Single-walled carbon nanotubes of a single chirality can be produced with an abundance of more than 92 per cent when using tungsten-based bimetallic alloy nanocrystals as catalysts.

  • Feng Yang
  • , Xiao Wang
  •  & Yan Li

• Research Highlights | 21 November 2012

  Catapult from nanotube yarns

• News | 16 November 2012

  Catapult showcases ultra-strong artificial muscles

  Carbon nanotubes soaked in paraffin wax flex and twist.

  • Nidhi Subbaraman

• News & Views | 31 October 2012

  Nanotube holograms

  Carbon nanotubes interact strongly with light — a property that makes them ideal components of holographic devices. The realization of such a device opens up fresh opportunities for holography.

  • Stéphane Larouche
  •  & David R. Smith

• Research Highlights | 17 October 2012

  Drawing a sensor on paper

• Research Highlights | 26 September 2012

  Pulsating tubes act as pumps

• Research Highlights | 19 September 2012

  Bigger rings allow thinner nanotubes

• News & Views | 18 April 2012

  Carbon nanotubes finally deliver

  A carbon-nanotube transistor has been made that performs better than the best conventional silicon analogues. The result propels these devices to the forefront of future microchip technologies.

  • Franz Kreupl

• Research Highlights | 14 December 2011

  Recharge through the skin

• Research Highlights | 31 August 2011

  Quick-cook nanotubes

• Research Highlights | 24 August 2011

  Nanotube chemistry

• Research Highlights | 11 May 2011

  Solar cells improve with acid

• Research Highlights | 04 May 2011

  Bigger screens with nanotubes

• Research Highlights | 09 February 2011

  Glimpses of crystal growth

• News Feature | 05 January 2011

  Chemistry: The trials of new carbon

  Researchers have spent 25 years exploring the remarkable properties of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene. But commercializing them is neither quick nor easy.

  • Richard Van Noorden

• Research Highlights | 15 December 2010

  Nanotechnology: Pressed to breaking point

• Research Highlights | 08 December 2010

  Chemistry: Ring-a-ring o'benzene

• Letter | 22 July 2010

  Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons

  Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have structure-dependent electronic properties that make them attractive for the fabrication of nanoscale electronic devices, but exploiting this potential has been hindered by the lack of precise production methods. Here the authors demonstrate how to reliably produce different GNRs, using precursor monomers that encode the structure of the targeted nanoribbon and are converted into GNRs by means of surface-assisted coupling.

  • Jinming Cai
  • , Pascal Ruffieux
  •  & Roman Fasel

• News & Views | 12 May 2010

  Controlled nanotube reactions

  For many potential applications, carbon nanotubes must be chemically modified, but the reactions involved aren't easily controlled. The discovery of a reversible modification process is a step towards such control.

  • Maurizio Prato

• Research Highlights | 14 April 2010

  Nanotechnology: Down the tube

• Research Highlights | 07 April 2010

  Chemical sensing: Bomb detector sewn up

• Research Highlights | 10 March 2010

  Nanotechnology: Harvesting heat