title: Virus sensor based on single-walled carbon nanotube: improved theory incorporating surface effects.
abstract: In this paper, we deal with the theoretical framework for a single-walled carbon nanotube serving as a virus or bacterium sensor, with the complicating influences of non-locality and surface effects taken into account. It is demonstrated that these effects are not negligible as is often assumed in the literature; they may greatly influence both the vibration behaviour as well as the identification process of the virus or bacterium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991, USA. elishako@fau.edu
authors.forename: Isaac
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Elishakoff
authors.forename: Noël
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Challamel
authors.forename: Clément
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Soret
authors.forename: Yannis
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bekel
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gomez
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D014780:Viruses / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon
keywords: Bresse–Timoshenko beams; carbon nanotubes; nanosensors; non-local effects; surface effects