No. 8 - April 2006


	Summary Application of the Month: Nanotubes for Filtering Anatomy of a Patenting Area: Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes Featured Equipment: Probe NanoLaboratory NTEGRA Research Monitoring (132 papers) Patent Monitoring (77 patents) Researcher Profiles

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RESEARCHER PROFILES

Pulickel Ajayan
Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
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Robert Haddon
Distinguished Professor,
Dept. of Chemistry
and Dept. of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Univ. of California Riverside

Director of UCR Center
for Nanoscale Science
and Engineering

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Robert Hauge
Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Rice University

Member of the Rice Quantum Institute and Center for Nanoscience and Engineeringy

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Antonio Gomes
Souza Filho
Assistant Professor, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal
do Cear?, Brazil

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	No. 8 - April 2006 APPLICATION OF THE MONTH: Carbon nanotubes for filtering and membranes Carbon nanotubes employed in filtering applications are able to retain nanometer-sized particles from various gases and liquids. They can also find a use in membranes, controlling molecular transport or molecular separation between two environments. Nanotube assemblies present a high surface area (above 1000 m2/g), combined with a controllable porosity and pore size distribution... READ MORE... ANATOMY OF A PATENTING AREA: Methods for nanotubes self-assembly Although self-assembly is a quite popular term, genuine self-assembly techniques are scarce among the patented methods that claim to harness such behavior. In many cases, ?self-assembly? merely designates an un-assisted deposition process or it is rather self-bundling than self-assembly. Another significant part of the authors... READ MORE... FEATURED EQUIPMENT: Probe NanoLaboratory NTEGRA There are few techniques that can be useful for imaging nanotubes, including some very popular methods like Electronic Microscopy (TEM, SEM) and Scanning Probe Microscopy (AFM, STM). In the meantime, the set of relevant nanotubes properties that could be studied, such as electrical, mechanical, and chemical, is rather wide. For a comprehensive investigation of nanotubes, different techniques must be applied and most of the time, the study of each property requires a separate piece of equipment... READ MORE ... RESEARCH PAPERS IN MARCH (132) Optical properties Temperature Dependence of the Optical Transition Energies of Carbon Nanotubes: The Role of Electron-Phonon Coupling and Thermal Expansion S. B. Cronin, Y. Yin, A. Walsh, Rodrigo B. Capaz, A. Stolyarov, P. Tangney, Marvin L. Cohen, Steven G. Louie, A. K. Swan, M. S. Unlu, B. B. Goldberg, and M. Tinkham Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127403 (2006) Chemical properties The formation of low-dimensional inorganic nanotube crystallites in carbon nanotubes Mark Wilson J. Chem. Phys. 124, 124706 (2006) READ MORE... PATENTS MONITORING IN MARCH (77) Nanoelectronics Carbon Nanotube Device, Process For Producing The Same And Carbon Nanotube Transcriptional Body EP1630128 Hirakata Masaki, Isozaki Takashi, Kishi Kentaro, Shigematsu Taishi, Manabe Chikara, Watanabe Hiroyuki, Shimizu Masaaki Sensors Target support with pattern recognition sites US2006065828 Lu Jennifer, Joyce Timothy READ MORE...