1. Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
Student: Ao Teng
Instructor: Elbio Dagotto

2. Outline
History
Synthesis
Structure
Properties
Applications

3. “There’s Plenty of Room
at the Bottom” (1959)

10. Fullerene (1985) Or
1965?

11. Discovery of Carbon Nanotubes (1991)
飯島 澄男
Iijima Sumio

12. First synthesis of SWNT By CCVD method (1996)
Hayashi
et al.
(2003)
戴宏杰
Hongjie Dai

14. Tight binding model & band structure
0, 0

15. Zone folding approximation & metallicity
Having filled states
around Fermi level

17. Density of states
Van Hove
Singularities

18. Other physical properties

19. Potential applications
Transistor?
Space elevator?
From Wikipedia

20. Potential applications
Hydrogen storage?
Paper battery?
From BBC News Aug14,2007
A. Nikitin et al. PRL 95, (2005)