Abstract
The study of carbon nanotubes, since their discovery by Iijima in 1991, has become a full research field with significant contributions from all areas of research in solid-state and molecular physics and also from chemistry. This Focus Issue in New Journal of Physics reflects this active research, and presents articles detailing significant advances in the production of carbon nanotubes, the study of their mechanical and vibrational properties, electronic properties and optical transitions, and electrical and transport properties. Fundamental research, both theoretical and experimental, represents part of this progress. The potential applications of nanotubes will rely on the progress made in understanding their fundamental physics and chemistry, as presented here. We believe this Focus Issue will be an excellent guide for both beginners and experts in the research field of carbon nanotubes.
It has been a great pleasure to edit the many excellent contributions from Europe, Japan, and the US, as well from a number of other countries, and to witness the remarkable effort put into the manuscripts by the contributors. We thank all the authors and referees involved in the process. In particular, we would like to express our gratitude to Alexander Bradshaw, who invited us put together this Focus Issue, and to Tim Smith and the New Journal of Physics staff for their extremely efficient handling of the manuscripts.
Focus on Carbon Nanotubes Contents
Transport theory of carbon nanotube Y junctionsR Egger, B Trauzettel, S Chen and F Siano
The tubular conical helix of graphitic boron nitrideF F Xu, Y Bando and D Golberg
Formation pathways for single-wall carbon nanotube multiterminal junctionsInna Ponomareva, Leonid A Chernozatonskii, Antonis N Andriotis and Madhu Menon
Synthesis and manipulation of carbon nanotubesJ W Seo, E Couteau, P Umek, K Hernadi, P Marcoux, B Lukic, Cs Mikó, M Milas, R Gaál and L Forró
Transitional behaviour in the transformation from active end planes to stable loops caused by annealingM Endo, B J Lee, Y A Kim, Y J Kim, H Muramatsu, T Yanagisawa, T Hayashi, M Terrones and M S Dresselhaus
Energetics and electronic structure of C70-peapods and one-dimensional chains of C70Susumu Okada, Minoru Otani and Atsushi Oshiyama
Theoretical characterization of several models of nanoporous carbonF Valencia, A H Romero, E Hernández, M Terrones and H Terrones
First-principles molecular dynamics study of the stretching frequencies of hydrogen molecules in carbon nanotubesGabriel Canto, Pablo Ordejón, Cheng Hansong, Alan C Cooper and Guido P Pez
The geometry and the radial breathing mode of carbon nanotubes: beyond the ideal behaviourJeno Kürti, Viktor Zólyomi, Miklos Kertesz and Guangyu Sun
Curved nanostructured materialsHumberto Terrones and Mauricio Terrones
A one-dimensional Ising model for C70 molecular ordering in C70-peapodsYutaka Maniwa, Hiromichi Kataura, Kazuyuki Matsuda and Yutaka Okabe
Nanoengineering of carbon nanotubes for nanotoolsYoshikazu Nakayama and Seiji Akita
Narrow diameter double-wall carbon nanotubes: synthesis, electron microscopy and inelastic light scatteringR R Bacsa, E Flahaut, Ch Laurent, A Peigney, S Aloni, P Puech and W S Bacsa
Sensitivity of single multiwalled carbon nanotubes to the environmentM Krüger, I Widmer, T Nussbaumer, M Buitelaar and C Schönenberger
Characterizing carbon nanotube samples with resonance Raman scatteringA Jorio, M A Pimenta, A G Souza Filho, R Saito, G Dresselhaus and M S Dresselhaus
FTIR-luminescence mapping of dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubesSergei Lebedkin, Katharina Arnold, Frank Hennrich, Ralph Krupke, Burkhard Renker and Manfred M Kappes
Structural properties of Haeckelite nanotubesPh Lambin and L P Biró
Structural changes in single-walled carbon nanotubes under non-hydrostatic pressures: x-ray and Raman studiesSukanta Karmakar, Surinder M Sharma, P V Teredesai, D V S Muthu, A Govindaraj, S K Sikka and A K Sood
Novel properties of 0.4 nm single-walled carbon nanotubes templated in the channels of AlPO4-5 single crystalsZ K Tang, N Wang, X X Zhang, J N Wang, C T Chan and Ping Sheng
Lattice dynamics and symmetry of double wall carbon nanotubesM Damnjanović, E Dobardžić, I Milošević, T Vuković and B Nikolić
Optical characterization of single-walled carbon nanotubes synthesized by catalytic decomposition of alcoholShigeo Maruyama, Yuhei Miyauchi, Yoichi Murakami and Shohei Chiashi
Electronic structure and the field emission mechanism of MgO-coated carbon nanotubesYoung-Woo Son, Seungwu Han and Jisoon Ihm
Controlled low-temperature growth of carbon nanofibres by plasma depositionS Hofmann, B Kleinsorge, C Ducati and J Robertson
Electronic properties of intercalated single-wall carbon nanotubes and C60 peapodsT Pichler, X Liu, M Knupfer and J Fink
Double resonance Raman spectroscopy of single-wall carbon nanotubesR Saito, A Grüneis, Ge G Samsonidze, V W Brar, G Dresselhaus, M S Dresselhaus, A Jorio, L G Cançado, C Fantini, M A Pimenta and A G Souza Filho
Contacts, non-linear transport effects and failure in multi-walled carbon nanotubesC Berger, Y Yi, J Gezo, P Poncharal and W A de Heer
Raman spectroscopy of small-diameter nanotubesM Hulman, R Pfeiffer and H Kuzmany
Multiple-layer conduction and scattering property in multi-walled carbon nanotubesK Tsukagoshi, E Watanabe, I Yagi, N Yoneya and Y Aoyagi
Trapping and aligning carbon nanotubes via substrate geometry engineeringY M Wang, Wei-Qiang Han and A Zettl
Syntheses of single- and double-wall carbon nanotubes by the HTPAD and HFCVD methodsToshiki Sugai, Toshiya Okazaki, Hiromichi Yoshida and Hisanori Shinohara
Ensemble averaging of conductance fluctuations in multiwall carbon nanotubesB Stojetz, Ch Hagen, Ch Hendlmeier, E Ljubovic, L Forró and Ch Strunk
Electronic effects in scanning tunnelling microscopy of metal-filled multiwalled carbon nanotubesRichard Czerw, Jiwen Liu and David L Carroll
Christian Thomsen, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Hiromichi Kataura, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan