Carbon Nanotubes: Fabrication, Properties and Applications
A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Chemical Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 339
Special Issue Editor
Interests: graphene; 2D materials; electronic properties; field effect transistors; photodetectors; contact resistance; field emission from nanostructures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since their discovery on 1991, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted enormous attention due to their extraordinary electronic properties, high surface-to-volume ratio, and excellent mechanical properties. The development of CNT-based sensors is also necessarily based on fundamental knowledge of the structure/property relationship. However, a wide range of sensors can be developed. Moreover, a supporting substrate/platform can contribute to enhanced detection performance. Several aspects are relevant to the exploitation of CNT properties, such as efficient and controlled growth (of desired substrates), control of alignment, dispersion of CNTs in solution or matrix, the durability of sensors, and scalability.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect recent activities about the fabrication, characterization, and modelling of CNTs-based sensors and actuators. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Synthesis of high-quality CNTs for sensing applications;
- Design, fabrication, and characterization of CNT-based sensors;
- CNT field effect transistors;
- Metal contacts on CNTs;
- Composite materials;
- Electrochemical sensors;
- Biosensors and chemical sensors;
- Gas sensors;
- Strain and pressure sensors;
- Flow sensors;
- Mass sensors and pH sensors.
Dr. Filippo Giubileo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- CNT synthesis;
- Field effect transistor;
- Contact resistance;
- Composite materials;
- Sensor design and characterization;
- Electrochemical sensors;
- Biosensors;
- Chemical sensors;
- Gas sensors;
- Strain sensors;
- Pressure sensors;
- Flow sensors;
- Mass sensors;
- pH sensors.
