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Potential Applications of Carbon Nanotube Arrays

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Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

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Abstract

Aligned CNT assemblies have many applications besides what were discussed in the previous chapters. In this chapter, we introduce some potential applications of aligned CNTs, which is possible from theoretical point of view but might take a long time to realize because of the immature of the needed techniques.

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Ren, Z., Lan, Y., Wang, Y. (2012). Potential Applications of Carbon Nanotube Arrays. In: Aligned Carbon Nanotubes. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30490-3_9

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