Timeline of carbon nanotubes

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Timeline of carbon nanotubes:

Inside a carbon nanotube
Inside a carbon nanotube

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[edit] 1952

  • Radushkevich and Lukyanovich publish a paper in the Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry showing hollow graphitic carbon fibers that are 50.34 nanometers in diameter.[1]

[edit] 1976

  • Oberlin, Endo and Koyama report CVD growth of nanometer-scale carbon fibers.[2]

[edit] 1979

[edit] 1985

[edit] 1987

  • Howard G. Tennent of Hyperion Catalysis issued a U.S. patent for graphitic, hollow core "fibrils".[5]

[edit] 1991

  • Nanotubes discovered in the soot of arc discharge at NEC, by Japanese researcher Sumio Iijima.[6]
  • August — Nanotubes discovered in CVD by Al Harrington and Tom Maganas of Maganas Industries, leading to development of a method to synthesize monomolecular thin film nanotube coatings.[7]

[edit] 1992

[edit] 1993

[edit] 1997

[edit] 1998

[edit] 2000

  • First demonstration proving that bending changes resistance[17]

[edit] 2001

  • April — IBM announces a technique for automatically developing pure semiconductor surfaces from nanotubes.[18]

[edit] 2002

  • January — Multi-walled nanotubes demonstrated to be fastest known oscillators (> 50 GHz).[19]
  • REBO method of quickly and accurately modeling classical nanotube behavior is described.[20]

[edit] 2003

  • April — Demonstration proves that bending changes resistance.[21]
  • June — High purity (20% impure) nanotubes with metallic properties were reported to be extracted with electrophoretic techniques.[22]
  • September — NEC announced stable fabrication technology of carbon nanotube transistors[23]

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

  • May — A prototype high-definition 10-centimetre flat screen made using nanotubes was exhibited.[27]
  • August — University of California finds Y-shaped nanotubes to be ready-made transistors.[28]
  • August — General Electric announced the development of an ideal carbon nanotube diode that operates at the "theoretical limit" (the best possible performance). A photovoltaic effect was also observed in the nanotube diode device that could lead to breakthroughs in solar cells, making them more efficient and thus more economically viable.[29]
  • August — Nanotube sheet synthesised with dimensions 5 × 100 cm.[30]
  • September — Applied Nanotech (Texas), in conjunction with six Japanese electronics firms, have created a prototype of a 25-inch TV using carbon nanotubes. The prototype TV does not suffer from "ghosting," as some types of digital TVs do.[31]
  • September — Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory demonstrated that ignition by a conventional flashbulb takes place when a layer of 29% iron enriched SWNT is placed on top of a layer of explosive material such as PETN. With ordinary explosives optical ignition is only possible with high powered lasers.[32]
  • September — Researchers demonstrated a new way to coat MWNT's with magnetite which after orientation in a magnetic field were able to attract each other over a distance of at least 10 micrometres.[33]The nanotubes were functionalized with negatively charged carboxylic acid groups in an AIBN type free radical addition. Magnetite nanoparticles prepared by the Massart method were given a positive charge by washing with nitric acid which made them stick to the nanotubes by electrostatic forces.
  • September — American and Korean scientists, working at Columbia University and Pohang University of Science and Technology and lead by Professor's Philip Kim of Columbia and Kim Kwang-Soo of Pohang, succeeded in pulling out a nested tube from a multiwalled nanotube (MWNT).[34]
  • November — Liquid flows up to five orders of magnitude faster than predicted through array.[35]
  • December — Indian Institutes of Technology Kanpur(India) announces presence of CNT in Soft-Kohl.[36]

[edit] 2006

The winning nanotube-enhanced bike
The winning nanotube-enhanced bike
  • January — Thin films of nanotubes made by evaporation.[37]
  • January — Another new method for growing forests of nanotubes is announced.[38]
  • January — Elasticity increased from 20% to 280% by raising temperatures, causing diameter and conductivity to change greatly.[39]
  • March — IBM announces that they have built an electronic circuit around a CNT.[40]
  • March — Nanotubes used as a scaffold for damaged nerve regeneration.[41]
  • May — Method of placing nanotube accurately is developed by IBM.[42]
  • June — Gadget invented by Rice University that can sort nanotubes by size and electrical properties[43]
  • July — Nanotubes were alloyed into the carbon fiber bike that won the 2006 Tour de France.[44]
  • August — oscillating nanotubes found to detect and identify individual molecules.[45]

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