PMID- 25899061
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150724
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 1521-4095 (Electronic)
IS  - 0935-9648 (Linking)
VI  - 27
IP  - 20
DP  - 2015 May 27
TI  - Double-walled carbon nanotube processing.
PG  - 3105-37
LID - 10.1002/adma.201405686 [doi]
AB  - Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have been the focus of intense research, 
      and the body of literature continues to grow exponentially, despite more than two 
      decades having passed since the first reports. As well as extensive studies of 
      the fundamental properties, this has seen SWCNTs used in a plethora of 
      applications as far ranging as microelectronics, energy storage, solar cells, and 
      sensors, to cancer treatment, drug delivery, and neuronal interfaces. On the 
      other hand, the properties and applications of double-walled carbon nanotubes 
      (DWCNTs) have remained relatively under-explored. This is despite DWCNTs not only 
      sharing many of the same unique characteristics of their single-walled 
      counterparts, but also possessing an additional suite of potentially advantageous 
      properties arising due to the presence of the second wall and the often complex 
      inter-wall interactions that arise. For example, it is envisaged that the outer 
      wall can be selectively functionalized whilst still leaving the inner wall in its 
      pristine state and available for signal transduction. A similar situation arises 
      in DWCNT field effect transistors (FETs), where the outer wall can provide a 
      convenient degree of chemical shielding of the inner wall from the external 
      environment, allowing the excellent transconductance properties of the pristine 
      nanotubes to be more fully exploited. Additionally, DWCNTs should also offer 
      unique opportunities to further the fundamental understanding of the inter-wall 
      interactions within and between carbon nanotubes. However, the realization of 
      these goals has so far been limited by the same challenge experienced by the 
      SWCNT field until recent years, namely, the inherent heterogeneity of raw, 
      as-produced DWCNT material. As such, there is now an emerging field of research 
      regarding DWCNT processing that focuses on the preparation of material of defined 
      length, diameter and electronic type, and which is rapidly building upon the 
      experience gained by the broader SWCNT community. This review describes the 
      background of the field, summarizing some relevant theory and the available 
      synthesis and purification routes; then provides a thorough synopsis of the 
      current state-of-the-art in DWCNT sorting methodologies, outlines contemporary 
      challenges in the field, and discusses the outlook for various potential 
      applications of the resulting material.
CI  - (c) 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
FAU - Moore, Katherine E
AU  - Moore KE
AD  - Centre for Nanoscale Science and Technology, School of Chemical and Physical 
      Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, 5042, Australia.
AD  - Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021, Karlsruhe, 
      Germany.
FAU - Tune, Daniel D
AU  - Tune DD
AD  - Centre for Nanoscale Science and Technology, School of Chemical and Physical 
      Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, 5042, Australia.
AD  - Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021, Karlsruhe, 
      Germany.
FAU - Flavel, Benjamin S
AU  - Flavel BS
AD  - Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021, Karlsruhe, 
      Germany.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150420
PL  - Germany
TA  - Adv Mater
JT  - Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
JID - 9885358
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - double-walled carbon nanotubes
OT  - electronic properties
OT  - enrichment
OT  - field-effect transistors
OT  - sorting
EDAT- 2015/04/23 06:00
MHDA- 2015/04/23 06:01
CRDT- 2015/04/23 06:00
PHST- 2014/12/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/02/27 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2015/04/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/04/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/04/23 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1002/adma.201405686 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Adv Mater. 2015 May 27;27(20):3105-37. doi: 10.1002/adma.201405686. Epub 2015 Apr 
      20.