title: Parallel alignment of carbon nanotubes induced with inorganic molecules.
abstract: In this work, a new strategy is presented to form ordered multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) arrays. The MWNTs are aligned horizontally and parallel in (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (3-APTES) sol films on the surface of mica and glassy carbon (GC). 3-APTES is ready to form charged rodlike micelles, which play a key role in fabricating orderly MWNT arrays. Moreover, we prepare MWNT arrays on the surfaces of solid electrodes and detect the electrochemical response of the microarray electrodes for the Fe(CN)(6)3-/Fe(CN)6(4-) couple.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Tie
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Mingkui
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiaoge
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Xiaohu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qu
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Shaojun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dong