scholarly journals Vertically aligned multi walled carbon nanotubes prevent biofilm formation of medically relevant bacteria

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (31) ◽  
pp. 5228-5235 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Malek ◽  
C. F. Schaber ◽  
T. Heinlein ◽  
J. J. Schneider ◽  
S. N. Gorb ◽  
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Biofilm formation of clinically relevant bacterial strains –Klebsiella oxytoca, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus epidermidis– is inhibited on MWCNT.

2012 ◽  
Vol 05 ◽  
pp. 704-711
Author(s):  
SIAVASH KHABAZIAN ◽  
SOHRAB SANJABI

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes films formed randomly aligned laterally by electrophoresis. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes with lengths of about 10 μ was shortened and functionalized by a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acid. The functional groups on carbon nanotubes were elaborated by FT-IR. Chemically shortened MWCNTs disperse in organic and aqueous solvent and deposited on electrode vertically-aligned by applying a constant DC electric field. The alignment of MWCNTs was observed by scanning electron microscopy. It also the effect of various substrates on alignment of multi-walled carbon nanotubes was investigated.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 304-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Cole ◽  
R. J. Parmee ◽  
A. Kumar ◽  
C. M. Collins ◽  
M. H. Kang ◽  
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Here we report on a straightforward and rapid means of enhancing the field electron emission performance of nascent vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes by introducing a polar zwitterionic conjugated polyelectrolyte adlayer at the vacuum–emitter interface.


2016 ◽  
Vol 701 ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Shazia Shukrullah ◽  
Norani Muti Mohamed ◽  
Maizatul Shima Shaharun ◽  
Muhammad Yasar

This study investigated the effect of catalyst amount on chemical vapour deposition (CVD) growth of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with and without hydrogen feed. The ferrocene weight was varied from 100 mg to 200 mg for CNTs growth over Si/SiO2/Al2O3 substrate. Very few CNTs were seen in micrographs of the samples produced in the absence of the hydrogen feed. Most of the carbon atoms precipitated into amorphous carbon due to existence of inactive catalyst particles. However, CNT structures grown with hydrogen feed were more distinct; the nanotubes were thinner, straight and highly crystalline. MWCNTs arrays/forest length was also increased from 120 µm to 850 µm with hydrogen feed. An increase in catalyst weight significantly affected the diameter, crystallinity, alignment and growth of nanotubes. The lowest inner-shell spacing of 0.348 nm was obtained with 150 mg of ferrocene, which is an indication of growth of relatively pure CNTs. Under the optimum conditions, the areal density of the ferrocene particles was sufficiently increased to get required alignment and crystallinity of MWCNTs.


2009 ◽  
Vol 1204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archana Pandey ◽  
Abhishek Prasad ◽  
Jason Moscatello ◽  
Yoke Khin Yap

AbstractField emission from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has been known for more than a decade but there is no commercialized product available in the market. Apparently, we need to improve our basics understanding on stable field emission from CNTs. Here we compared the field emission properties of as grown vertically-aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) to two types of modified MWCNTs: 1) Conical bundles of opened-tip MWCNTs, and 2) Opened-tip MWCNTs embedded in poly-methyl methacrylate (PMMA). We found that both types of modified MWCNTs have lower emission thresholds and better emission stability than the as grown samples. Among these modified samples, MCNTs embedded in PMMA has lower emission thresholds and better emission stability. We attributed these improvements to the filling of spacing between MWCNTs with PMMA that has higher dielectric constant than vacuum.


Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (44) ◽  
pp. 21394-21403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaar M. D. Alharbi ◽  
Kasturi Vimalanathan ◽  
Ibrahim K. Alsulami ◽  
Colin L. Raston

Applications of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) benefit from the availability of specific lengths of the material while keeping the outer walls pristine, for example, for applications requiring vertically aligned tubes.


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