No.2 - October 2005


	Summary APPLICATION OF THE MONTH: CATALYST SUPPORT RESEARCH PAPERS MONITORING PATENTS MONITORING Featured research using Nanocyl nanotubes Researcher profiles

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	FEATURED RESEARCH EMPLOYING NANOCYL NANOTUBES This month's review focuses on the investigation of transport properties in individual carbon nanotubes. Dr. Marc in het Panhuis (University of Hull, UK) and his colleagues performed an in situ manipulation and characterization of such nanotubes using a nano-manipulation system operating inside a scanning electron microscope, which also operated as an electrical probing system. Along with Rishi Gupta and Richard E. Stallcup (both from Zyvex Corporation, Dallas, Texas), Marc in het Panhuis investigated transport characteristics of an individual carbon nanotube in free space as a function of reversible mechanical manipulation. READ MORE...

RESEARCHER PROFILES

Jesper Nygard
Associated Research Professor at the Nanoscience Center, Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, Copenhagen
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Rodney S. Ruoff
Professor, Northwestern University
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Robert Young
Professor of Polymer Science and Technology, Head of School of Materials, University of Manchester
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Dr. Marc in het Panhuis
Lecturer, University of Hull
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	No.2 - October 2005 Based on the NanoSPRINT Encyclopedia of Carbon Nanotubes APPLICATION OF THE MONTH: CATALYST SUPPORT Based on the NanoSPRINT Encyclopedia of Carbon Nanotubes The high chemical resistance to acid/alkaline media and the possibility to control, up to certain limits, the porosity and the surface chemistry made carbon based materials a preferred choice for catalyst supports. Among them, carbon nanotubes represent a distinctive class of catalyst supports, exhibiting a high surface area and many available adsorption sites. Typically, the total surface area of as-grown single-walled carbon nanotubes ranges between 400 and 900 m²/g, whereas for as-produced multi-walled carbon nanotubes values are ranging between 200 and 400 m²/g. READ MORE... RESEARCH MONITORING (47 papers selected) Overview of publications. Nanotube research witnessed a significant interest toward composite materials in September. Band Structure, Phonon Scattering, and the Performance Limit of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistor Xinjian Zhou, Ji-Yong Park, Shaoming Huang, Jie Liu, and Paul L. McEuen Cracks and Topological Defects in Lyotropic Nematic Gels M. F. Islam, M. Nobili, Fangfu Ye, T. C. Lubensky, and A. G. Yodh Theoretical study of the effects of alkali-metal atoms adsorption on Raman spectra of single-wall carbon nanotubes Brahim Akdim, Xiaofeng Duan, Donald A. Shiffler, and Ruth Pachter READ MORE... PATENTS MONITORING (40 patents reviewed) Patents survey. Nanotube composites account for one third of the last month?s patent registrations (15). Amplification of carbon nanotubes via seeded-growth methods HAUGE ROBERT H (US); (+11) Applicant: UNIV RICE WILLIAM M (US); SMALLEY RICHARD E (US); (+12) Dispersion of carbon nanotubes by nucleic acids DINER BRUCE A (US); ZHENG MING (US) Medical devices incorporating carbon nanotube material and methods of fabricating same BRABEC SCOTT J (US); GARDESKI KENNETH C (US) READ MORE...