title: Horizontal carbon nanotube alignment.
abstract: The production of horizontally aligned carbon nanotubes offers a rapid means of realizing a myriad of self-assembled near-atom-scale technologies - from novel photonic crystals to nanoscale transistors. The ability to reproducibly align anisotropic nanostructures has huge technological value. Here we review the present state-of-the-art in horizontal carbon nanotube alignment. For both in and ex situ approaches, we quantitatively assess the reported linear packing densities alongside the degree of alignment possible for each of these core methodologies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FA, UK. mtc35@cam.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Matthew T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.forename: Vito
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cientanni
authors.forename: William I
authors.initials: WI
authors.lastname: Milne