Efficient transfer of a VA-SWNT film by a flip-over technique.
A transfer of a VA-SWNT film onto a conductive surface has been achieved using a novel "flip-over" technique. The top surface of a VA-SWNT film was covered by entangled bundles in an as-grown sample. When a VA-SWNT film was flipped over, an optically flat surface consisting of the tips of very well aligned, clean bundles from the bottom of the film are exposed while the top of the film is well contacted to the substrate. Thus, we expect this technique to provide us with means to prepare carbon nanotube electrodes for device applications such as super capacitors, thermo-electric devices, fuel cells, and field emission filaments.
Kim
Myung Jong
MJ
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
Nicholas
Nolan
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Kittrell
Carter
C
Haroz
Erik
E
Shan
Hongwei
H
Wainerdi
T J
TJ
Lee
Sungbae
S
Schmidt
Howard K
HK
Smalley
Richard E
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Hauge
Robert H
RH