title: Shape-engineerable and highly densely packed single-walled carbon nanotubes and their application as super-capacitor electrodes.
abstract: We present a rational and general method to fabricate a high-densely packed and aligned single-walled carbon-nanotube (SWNT) material by using the zipping effect of liquids to draw tubes together. This bulk carbon-nanotube material retains the intrinsic properties of individual SWNTs, such as high surface area, flexibility and electrical conductivity. By controlling the fabrication process, it is possible to fabricate a wide range of solids in numerous shapes and structures. This dense SWNT material is advantageous for numerous applications, and here we demonstrate its use as flexible heaters as well as supercapacitor electrodes for compact energy-storage devices.
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials, Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan.
authors.forename: Don N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Futaba
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hata
authors.forename: Takeo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Tatsuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hiraoka
authors.forename: Yuhei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayamizu
authors.forename: Yozo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kakudate
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tanaike
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hatori
authors.forename: Motoo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yumura
authors.forename: Sumio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iijima