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The Engineering of Hot Carbon Nanotubes with a Focused Electron Beam
Jixue LiFlorian Banhartsubject
Materials sciencePhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsMechanical EngineeringNanostructured materialsBent molecular geometryBioengineeringMechanical properties of carbon nanotubesGeneral ChemistryCarbon nanotubeCondensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall EffectCondensed Matter Physicslaw.inventionCondensed Matter::Materials SciencelawMonolayerCathode rayGeneral Materials ScienceIrradiationElectron microscopeComposite materialComputer Science::Databasesdescription
Single-wall and multiwall carbon nanotubes at high temperature are irradiated with the focused electron beam in an electron microscope. Nanotubes can be tailored with monolayer precision, and new morphologies of nanotubes are created. Atoms from layers of multiwall tubes can be removed and the tubes can be bent by a predefined angle. Bundles of single-wall tubes are transformed locally to multiwall tubes with coherent transition between the two modifications.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-03-20 | Nano Letters |