title: Dry shear aligning: a simple and versatile method to smooth and align the surfaces of carbon nanotube thin films.
abstract: We show that the application of lateral shear force on a randomly oriented thin film of carbon nanotubes, in the dry state, causes significant reordering of the nanotubes at the film surface. This new technique of dry shear aligning is applicable to carbon nanotube thin films produced by many of the established methods.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany. daniel.tune@kit.edu benjamin.flavel@kit.edu.
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Tune
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Stolz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pfohl
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Flavel