Heating Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures (IMAGE)

Rice University

Heating Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures

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Scientists at Rice and Swansea universities have demonstrated that heating carbon nanotubes at high temperatures eliminates contaminants that make nanotubes difficult to test for conductivity. They found when measurements are taken within 4 microns of each other, regions of depleted conductivity caused by contaminants overlap, which scrambles the results. The plot shows the deviation when probes test conductivity from minus 1 to 1 volt at distances greater or less than 4 microns.

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Barron Research Group/Rice University

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