Recent studies on double wall and triple wall carbon nanotubes

COFFEE_KLATCH  · Invited

Abstract

Recent progress is reported in studying 1) metallicity effects in double wall and triple wall carbon nanotubes, and 2) self healing effects in bundles due to ruptures in current flow due to Joule heating in carbon nanotube bundles.

*The author acknowledges support from DOE DE-FG02-09ER46577 and NSF DMR-1004147

Authors

  • Mildred Dresselhaus

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT, USA
    • MIT Physics, MIT EECS