Contents

### **Preface XIII**


Vlad Popa-Nita, Valentin Barna, Robert Repnik and Samo Kralj


**Section 3 Carbon Nanotubes for Green Technologies 395**

**Materials 397** Natalia V. Kamanina

W. Kroto

Chapter 18 **Interconnecting Carbon Nanotubes for a Sustainable Economy 413**

**Hydrogen Economy 433**

Yao-Chi Shu and Gang Chang

**Photocatalysis 479** Tawfik A. Saleh

Chapter 21 **The Role of Carbon Nanotubes in Enhancement of**

Chapter 22 **Carbon Nanotubes for Energy Applications 495**

Chapter 19 **Carbon Nanotube-Enzyme Biohybrids in a Green**

Thérèse Giudici-Orticoni and Elisabeth Lojou

Chapter 20 **Adsorption of Methylene Blue on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Sodium Alginate Gel Beads 467**

Chapter 17 **Carbon Nanotubes Influence on Spectral, Photoconductive,**

**Photorefractive and Dynamic Properties of the Optical**

Steve F. A. Acquah, Darryl N. Ventura, Samuel E. Rustan and Harold

Contents **VII**

Anne De Poulpiquet, Alexandre Ciaccafava, Saïda Benomar, Marie-

Fang-Chang Tsai, Ning Ma, Lung-Chang Tsai, Chi-Min Shu, Tao Jiang, Hung-Chen Chang, Sheng Wen, Chi Zhang, Tai-Chin Chiang, Yung-Chuan Chu, Wei-Ting Chen, Shih-Hsin Chen, Han-Wen Xiao,

Dennis Antiohos, Mark Romano, Jun Chen and Joselito M. Razal

#### **Section 3 Carbon Nanotubes for Green Technologies 395**

Chapter 8 **Toward Greener Chemistry Methods for Preparation of Hybrid Polymer Materials Based on Carbon Nanotubes 167** Carlos Alberto Ávila-Orta, Pablo González-Morones, Carlos José Espinoza-González, Juan Guillermo Martínez-Colunga, María Guadalupe Neira-Velázquez, Aidé Sáenz-Galindo and Lluvia Itzel

Chapter 9 **Carbon Nanotubes and Their Composites 193**

Chapter 10 **Kinetics of Growing Centimeter Long Carbon**

S. Karthikeyan and P. Mahalingam

Chapter 12 **Toroidal and Coiled Carbon Nanotubes 257**

**Section 2 Electrical and Biomedical Applications of Carbon**

Chapter 14 **Carbon Nanotube Transparent Electrode 313** Jing Sun and Ranran Wang

**Based Gas Sensors 337**

**Applications 367**

Chapter 13 **Carbon Nanotubes for Use in Medicine: Potentials and**

Lizhao Liu and Jijun Zhao

**Nanotubes 283**

**Limitations 285**

Prakash

**Nanotube Arrays 223**

Veena Choudhary, B.P. Singh and R.B. Mathur

Wondong Cho, Mark Schulz and Vesselin Shanov

Chapter 11 **Carbon Nanotubes from Unconventional Resources: Part A:**

**Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes 239**

**Entangled Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Part B:**

Wei Shao, Paul Arghya, Mai Yiyong, Laetitia Rodes and Satya

Chapter 15 **Latest Advances in Modified/Functionalized Carbon Nanotube-**

Enid Contés-de Jesús, Jing Li and Carlos R. Cabrera

Chapter 16 **Carbon Nanotube Composites for Electronic Interconnect**

Tamjid Chowdhury and James F. Rohan

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Chapter 19 **Carbon Nanotube-Enzyme Biohybrids in a Green Hydrogen Economy 433** Anne De Poulpiquet, Alexandre Ciaccafava, Saïda Benomar, Marie-Thérèse Giudici-Orticoni and Elisabeth Lojou


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than one category.

trial domains

Carbon nanotubes are rolled up graphene sheets with a quasi-one-dimensional structure of nanometer-scale diameters. More than twenty years have passed since the pioneering work on carbon nanotubes by Prof. Iijima in 1991. During that time, carbon nanotubes have at‐ tracted much attention from physicists, chemists, material scientists, and electronic device engineers, because of their excellent structural, electronic, optical, chemical, and mechanical properties. Most of these unique properties mainly originate in the parent material, gra‐ phene, which has also been very intensively studied as a Dirac Fermion system. More re‐ cently, demand for innovative industrial applications of carbon nanotubes is increasing.

This book contains recent research topics covering syntheses techniques of carbon nano‐ tubes and nanotube-based composites, and their applications. All of the chapters were writ‐ ten by researchers who are active on the front lines. This book consists of three parts. Part 1 mainly focuses on novel syntheses techniques for single- and multi-wall carbon nanotubes, nanocoils, and their composites. Some chapters in Part 1 describe theoretical aspects of nanotube composite formation. In Part 2, electrical and medical applications of carbon nano‐ tubes are described. This part covers applications for gas sensors, transparent electrodes, and interconnects. Nanotube-based therapeutics and biological detection techniques are also reviewed. Part 3 mainly focuses on applications for green technologies, with much attention paid to energy storage and decontamination technologies. However, note that the above cat‐ egorization is not rigorous: Some chapters are quite broad in scope and cover topics in more

I believe that this book will be of interest to physicists, chemists, material scientists, engi‐ neers, and students who are working on carbon nanotubes both in the academic and indus‐

*I express my deepest appreciation to all of the authors for their excellent contributions and endeavors*

**Satoru Suzuki**

Senior Research Scientist

Materials Science Laboratory

*in the publication of this book.*

NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan

Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials Research Group
