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Properties and Applications of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays

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Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

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Aligned CNT arrays have unique properties over individual CNTs and have wider applications, including field emission and flat screens, ultracapacitors, nanoelectrode arrays, fuel cells, solar cells, transistors, chemical and biological sensors, due to the ordering of their aligned structures. In this chapter, we focus on the applications of the well-aligned CNT arrays and talk about these applications in detail.

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Ren, Z., Lan, Y., Wang, Y. (2012). Properties and Applications of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays. In: Aligned Carbon Nanotubes. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30490-3_8

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