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CNT Electronics: Nearly Single‐Chirality Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes Produced via Orthogonal Iterative Density Gradient Ultracentrifugation (Adv. Mater. 19/2011)
Author(s) -
Green Alexander A.,
Hersam Mark C.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201190067
Subject(s) - carbon nanotube , materials science , chirality (physics) , nanotechnology , transistor , optoelectronics , carbon fibers , electronics , composite material , chemistry , voltage , chiral symmetry breaking , physics , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark , composite number
The cover depicts a thin‐film transistor formed from a randomly oriented network of (6,5) single‐walled carbon nanotubes. On p. 2185 , Alexander Green and Mark Hersam describe a method of producing nearly single‐chirality single‐walled carbon nanotubes using iterative orthogonal density gradient ultracentrifugation. Semiconducting carbon nanotubes produced using this technique offer exceptional performance in thin‐film transistors and are promising optoelectronic materials.