The Nanotube Site

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Maybe the most significant spin-off product of fullerene research, leading to the discovery of the C₆₀ "buckyball" by the 1996 Nobel Prize laureates Robert F. Curl, Harold W. Kroto, and Richard E. Smalley, are nanotubes based on carbon or other elements. These systems consist of graphitic layers seamlessly wrapped to cylinders. With only a few nano-meters in diameter, yet (presently) up to a milli-meter long, the length-to-width aspect ratio is extremely high. A truly molecular nature is unprecedented for macroscopic devices of this size. Accordingly, the number of both specialized and large-scale applications is growing constantly.

The primary purpose of The Nanotube Site is to facilitate the exchange of ideas among researchers by concentrating links to sites dedicated to nanotubes. One of the benefits is to provide an easier (or better structured) electronic access to bibliographical information and preprints. Information about providers of nanotubes is intended to increase the production volume and find new applications for nanotubes.

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General Information on Nanotubes:

• Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes (compiled by Tom Adams)
• Carbon Nanotubes: A Time Line

Nanotube Link Sites:

• University of Reading: Peter Harris' Nanotube Site
• Enzo Menna at University of Padova: Nanobookmark Page

Sources of Nanotubes and Nanotube-Based Products:

• The Nanotube Synthesis Site with information about nanotube synthesis:
• High-Pressure CO Conversion (HiPCO)
• Pulsed-Lased Vaporization (PLV)
• Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)
• Carbon Arc synthesis (CA)
• Non-Commercial Sources
• Commercial Sources

Optimized Geometries:

• Carbon Nanotube generation applet by Roberto Veiga, corrected by David Tomanek
• Fullerene Gallery of M. Yoshida: Cartesian Coordinates

Sites Dedicated to Nanotubes:

• NASA: Use of Carbon Nanotubes in Space
• Rice University: Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
• Michigan State University: David Tomanek's Nanotube Page
• Cornell University: Paul McEuen Group's Nanotube Research Page
• University of Oxford: The Oxford Nanotube Group
• Enzo Menna at University of Padova: Solubilization of Carbon Nanotubes
• University of Kentucky: Advanced Carbon Materials Science Research and Engineering Ctr.
• NASA JSC Nanotube Site
• NASA Carbon Nanotube Gallery
• NEC: Nanotubulite Project
• Vanderbilt University: Tobias Hertel's Nanotube Research Site
• Australian National University in Canberra: Nanotubes produced by ball milling
• Universite Paris-Sud in Orsay: Fullerenes and Nanotubes (including nanotubes in zeolite and nanotube-based fibers)
• Oklahoma University: Large Scale Production of Single Walled Nanotubes (Daniel Resasco)
• CARAMEL Consortium, Sweden: Development of Nanotube-Based Nano-Electromechanical Devices (NEMS)
• Clemson University: Apparao Rao's Nanotube Research site
• University of Toulouse: Nanocomposites and Carbon Nanotubes Group
• Goteborg University, Sweden: Kim Bolton's page on computational nanotube research
• University of Tokyo: Shigeo Maruyama's Nanotube Site
• University of Helsinki: Ion irradiation of carbon nanotubes
• CNRS Nanotube Research Group: Brief nanotube review (French)
• IBM Nanoscale Science: Carbon nanotube page
• IBM Research: Towards a chip with carbon nanotube transistors
• LSI Theory group at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France: Nanotube page
• University of Cambridge Engineering: Carbon nanotube webpage
• FUNDP Namur, Belgium: Valentin Popov's nanotube webpage
• Carbon Nanotube Club (hosted by the University of Cambridge)

Sites Relevant to Nanotube Research:

• Rice University: Rick Smalley's Group Home Page
• Washington University: Novel Carbon Materials (Rod Ruoff)
• University of Texas: Malcolm Brown's Nanopage
• University of Pennsylvania: Jack Fischer's Group Home Page
• University of California at Berkeley: Alex Zettl's Group Home Page
• Penn State University: Peter Eklund's Group Home Page
• Clemson University: Laboratory for Nanotechnology
• Delft University of Technology: Cees Dekker's Home Page
• North Carolina Center for Nanoscale Materials
• University of the Basque Country and DIPC (Spain): Angel Rubio's Nanotube Page
• University of Sussex: Harry Kroto's Fullerene Group Home Page
• UC Santa Cruz: Keivan Esfarjani's Nanotube Page
• Weizmann Institute: Daniel Wagner's Page on Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Composites
• IFW Dresden: Carbon Nanostructures - Synthesis, Transport and Spectroscopy
• Penn State University: Milton Cole's Page on Adsorption in Nanotubes
• Rice University: Ching-Hwa Kiang's Group Home Page
• CNRS Odeillo: Tony Guillard's Fullerene and Nanotube Page (in French)
• Roberto "Maranza" Marangoni's Nanotube Page (in Italian)
• Stanford University: Hongjie Dai's Group Home Page
• ICB-CSIC Zaragoza (Spain): Group of Carbon Nanostructures and Nanotechnology
• Thomas Laude: Nanostructures of carbon and boron nitride
• Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (Germany): Synthetic Nanostructures
• North East Wales Institute of Higher Education: Advanced Materials Research Laboratory
• Jie Liu's Group at Duke University: CVD Synthesis of Single-Wall Nanotubes
• The ENEA-ASI Nanotube Project for Spacecraft Materials
• Steve Lenhert: Nanotech Guide to Nanotubes
• Reseach Group For Advanced Carbon of the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• University Fribourg (Switzerland): Synthesis and Characterization of Carbon Nanostructures and Nanotubes
• CERCA: Nanostructures and Biomaterials Group - research and bibliography
• Metu Turkey: Fikret Hasmir's Nanotube Site
• University of Maryland: Michael S. Fuhrer's Research Page
• Cambridge University: Charanjeet's Web page on CVD nanotubes
• Oxford University: Jeremy Sloan's page on 1D crystals in Nanotubes and related topics
• Bucky News service at the University of Pennsylvania
• Michigan State University: Cluster Science Collaboration
• State University of New York at Stony Brook: Buckyball Home Page
• Res. Inst. for Techn. Physics and Mat. Sci.: Tunneling through a nanotube
• Cambridge University: Milo Shaffer's Home Page
• Zyvex: Nanotube 3D Manipulation
• IBM Nanotechnology Research
• IBM Nanoscale Science Department: Home Page
• University of Michigan: SWNT Production in a Reduced Gravity Environment
• Michigan State University: Daily InScight Report and Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Nanotube-Based Memory Element
• IBM Research Centers: Nanoscience
• University of Warwick: Links to Fullerene Sites
• Harvard University: Nanotube AFM Tips Produced by Chemical Vapor Deposition
• University of Montpellier: Growth and characterization of single-wall carbon nanotubes produced by the solar method
• National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Japan: Molecular Reaction Engineering Group
• Michigan State University: Introduction to Nanotubes (Undergraduate Project)
• Jeonbuk National University, Korea: Synthesis of aligned carbon nanotubes
• Australian National University: Nanotube research at the Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratories
• Berkeley Lab: Electronic Devices within Carbon Nanotubes
• University of Mainz: Carbon Nanostructures page of Florian Banhart
• Purdue University: Nanotube Research in Ron Reifenberger's Lab
• Georgia Tech: Nanotube and Nanowire Research in Z.L. Wang's Group
• Steve Lenhert: Nanotech Guide's Glossary of Nanotech Terms
• Nanotechnology Lab: Nanotube related links
• NanotechNews: News related to Nanotechnology
• NCSU: Physics Page of Charles Brabec
• MIT: Fullerene Patent Database
• Rice Press Release: CNST Brings Nanoscale Products Closer to Market
• MIT: Carbon Nanocapsule (Riichiro Saito)
• Emory University: Nanotubes of cyclic peptides
• University of Namur (Ph. Lambin): Connecting carbon nanotubes
• Rice University: Smalley group's image gallery
• Scientific American Magazine: "Turn of the gear"
• TechExpo: The Online Expositions for High Technology
• Peter Butzloff: Nanotube Poetry Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
• Sergei V. Kozyrev: Fullerenes World
• ETH Zürich: Home page of the Nesper group
• Boston College: Zhifeng Ren's Group
• AIST, Japan: Fullerene Forum
• Purdue University: Yongqiang Xue's Molecular Electronics Page
• Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations
• CSIRO media release of 16 June 1999: Nanotubes for better TV screens
• Jeff Shaw at MSU: A Student Guide to Nanotechology
• Encyclopedia Britannica: Listing of Nanotube-Related Topics
• PSIgate: Physical Sciences Information Gateway
• Scientific American Magazine, June 2000: "Tantalizing Tubes"
• PhysicsWeb/Physics World, June 2000: "Carbon nanotubes roll on", "Multiwall carbon nanotubes", "Single-wall carbon nanotubes", "Controlling nanotube growth", "Industry sizes up nanotubes"
• Nanotube-based Space Elevator project
• Emmanuel Flahaut's Double-walled Carbon Nanotube Page
• Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul: Ceramic Materials Laboratory
• Yongsheng Chen's group at Nankai University: Nanotube research at the Nanomaterials and Molecular Devices Laboratory
• Diccionario de Nanotecnología: Nanotubos (in Spanish)
• Emmanuel Kymakis: Nanotube Based Photovoltaics
• Michael Riedlinger: Nanotubes in halloyside clay
• John Hart: Gallery of of carbon nanotube structure visualizations
• Nanomade group at LPICM: Optimized synthesis of carbon nanotubes for selected applications

Future Events in the Nanotube Field:

• NT'08 (NANOTUBE'2008): 9th International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, Montpellier, France, June 29 - July 4, 2008.
• CNBMT08: 1st Symposium on Carbon Nanotubes in Biology, Medicine & Toxicology, Montpellier, France, June 28, 2008.
• NAPHOD'08: Summer School on Carbon Nanotubes and Related Objects, Porto Conte Ricerche, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, from September 15-20, 2008.
• Calendar of Future Nanotechnology conferences
• The Internet Physics Calendar maintained by the EPS
• Calendar of Physics Conferences by Y.S. Kim of the University of Maryland
• Calendar of Chemistry Conferences by Reto Mueller

Past Events in the Nanotube Field:

• NT'07 (NANOTUBE'2007): 8th International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, Ouro Preto, Brazil, June 24-29, 2007.
• WONTON'07: 2nd Workshop on Nanotube Optics and Nanospectroscopy, Ottawa, Canada, June 4-7, 2007.
• CSSNT06: Summer School on Nanotubes, Cargèse, Corsica, France, July 3-15, 2006.
• NT'06 (NANOTUBE'2006): 7th International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, Nagano, Japan, June 18 - 23, 2006.
• NanoteC'05: 7th Workshop on Nanotechnology in Carbon and Related Materials, University of Sussex at Brighton, U.K., August 31-September 3, 2005.
• WONTON'05: 1st Workshop on Nanotube Optics and Spectroscopy, Telluride, Colorado, 16-21 July 2005.
• NT'05 (NANOTUBE'2005): 6th International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 26 - July 1, 2005.
• NT'04 (NANOTUBE'2004): International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, July 19-24, 2004 ( http://materials.ipicyt.edu.mx/nt04/; mirror site at http://nanotube.msu.edu/nt04/).
• Carbon2004: International meeting on the Science and Technology of Carbon Materials, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, July 11-16, 2004.
• NanoteC'03
• ADC/FCT'03: International Joint Conference on Applied Diamond and Frontier Carbon Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, August 18-21, 2003.
• NT'03 (NANOTUBE'2003): International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, Seoul, Korea, July 7-12, 2003.
• IWFAC'03: 6th Biennial International Workshop on Fullerenes and Atomic Clusters, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 30 - July 4, 2003.
• NNNT'03: NASA-NIST Workshop on Purity and Dispersion Measurement Issues in Single Wall Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT) Materials, Gaithersburg, MD, May 27-29, 2003.
• IWEPNM'03: XVIth International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials, Kirchberg, Austria, March 8-15, 2003.
• SWCNT'03: Workshop on Single-wall Carbon Nanotube Growth Mechanisms, Guadalupe River Ranch and Spa, Boerne, Texas, February 28 - March 3, 2003.
• AMN-1: International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington, New Zealand, February 9-14, 2003.
• NELE'03: International Conference on Nanoelectronics, Lancaster, UK, January 4-9, 2003.
• NT'02 (NANOTUBE'2002): International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, Boston, Massachusetts, July 6-11, 2002.
• QTSM & QFS'02: International Conference on Quantum Transport in Sythetic Metals and Quantum Functional Semiconductors, Seoul, Korea, May 8-10, 2002.
• ISNC2001 - International Symposium on Nanocarbons 2001, Nagano, Japan, 14-16 November 2001.
• N&N2001 - School and Workshop on Nanotubes and Nanostructures, Frascati, Italy, October 17-27, 2001.
• Nanodays - Conference at Rice University, October 11-12, 2002.
• CNT10 - "Tsukuba Carbon Nanotube Symposium: 10th Anniversary of Nanotube Discovery", Tsukuba, Japan, October 3-5, 2001.
• NanoteC'01 - Conference on "Nanotechnology in Carbon and Related Materials", University of Sussex at Brighton (UK), August 29 - Septemeber 1, 2001.
• ADC/FCT 2001: Sixth Applied Diamond Conference / Second Frontier Carbon Technology Joint Conference, Auburn, Alabama, August 6-10, 2001.
• NT'01 (NANOTUBE'2001): International Workshop on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, Potsdam, Germany, July 22-26, 2001.
• IWFAC'2001: International Workshop on "Fullereenes and Atomic Clusters", St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2-6, 2001.
• AWNF2001: Australian Workshop on Nanotubes and Fullerenes, Australian National University, Canberra, May 3-4, 2001.
• FGS'01: Fullerene General Symposium, Okazaki, Japan, January 22-23, 2001.
• ISNM'2001: International Symposium on Nanonetwork Materials: Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Related Systems, Kamakura, Japan, January 15-18, 2001.
• N&N'2000: Nanostructures and Nanotubes workshop in Cagligari, Sardinia, Italy, 24 September - 4 October 2000.
• NASA Workshop on Nano-Biotechnology, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, June 14-15, 2000.
• The Knowledge Foundation: 2nd Annual Conference on Carbon Nanotubes: Advances in Applications and Production in Miami Beach, Florida, April 10-11, 2000.
• IWEPNM 2000 in Kirchberg, Austria, March 4-11, 2000: International Winterschools on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials
• NASA: Nanospace 2000 Conference, January 23-28, 2000, League City, Texas
• Molecular Simulation '99 - Virtual Web Workshop
• LTFC'99 -- 2nd Workshop on the Application Potential of Low-Temperature Fuel Cells, Lucerne, Switzerland, June 21, 1999
• NANOTUBE-99 - Workshop at Michigan State University, July 24-27, 1999.
• NANOTEC'99 - Conference on "Nanotechnology in Carbon and Related Materials", University of Sussex at Brighton (UK), Septemeber 8-10, 1999.
• IWFAC'99 -- 4th Biennial International Workshop in Russia on "Fullerenes and Atomic Clusters", St. Petersburg, Russia, October 4 - 8, 1999.
• NAMITECH - Nanotubes for Microstructure Technology workshop in Valladolid, Spain, Fall 1999.

Nanotube Bibliography:

• Highlights in Small Systems: Open-access virtual journal and discussion forum
• Highlights in Nanotechnology: Open-access virtual journal and discussion forum
• David Tománek and Richard Enbody (eds.): "Science and Application of Nanotubes" (NT'99 Proceedings)
• Peter J. F. Harris: "Carbon Nanotubes and Related Structures" (textbook)
• Riichiro Saito, Gene Dresselhaus and Mildred S. Dresselhaus: "Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes" (introductory textbook)
• Michigan State University: Nanotube Publications - David Tomanek's Group
• Dan Asimov: Manuscript Addressing the Geometry of Capped Nanocylinders
• K. Harigaya: Papers of Nanotubes and Fullerenes
• Steve Lenhert: Nanotech Guide's Selection of Publications (bi-weekly)
• Steve Lenhert: Nanotech Guide's Electronic Newsletter (bi-monthly)
• Applied Physics Letters (APL) and Journal of Applied Physics (JAP): Current articles on carbon nanotubes
• AIP Publication Topics: Carbon Nanotubes and Nanoscale Materials
• AIP Publication Topics, by subject: Nanotubes and Nanoscale Materials
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• Stephanie Reich, Christian Thomsen, Janina Maultzsch: "Carbon Nanotubes: Basic Concepts and Physical Properties" (introductory textbook)
• Tobias Beck: In die Röhre geguckt, Die Zeit 20, 6. Mai 2004
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• David Tománek: Reply to the article In die Röhre geguckt by Tobias Beck [Die Zeit 20, 6. Mai 2004] (in German).

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