Carbon Nanotubes
Two Russian scientists, L.V. Radushkevich & V.M. Lukyanovich gave the world its first clear look at carbon nanotubes. The clear images were showing multi-walled carbon nanotubes with a 50 nm diameter. Their paper is published in the Soviet Journal of Physical Chemistry.[citeration 56]
1952
1960
W. Bollmann & J. Spreadborough discussed friction properties of carbon due to rolling sheets of graphene in Nature. Electron Microscope picture clearly shows MWCNT. [citeration 13]
1976
A. Oberlin, M. Endo, and T. Koyama reported Chemical Vapor Deposition growth of nanometer-scale carbon fibers. [citeration 14]
1979
J. Abrahamson, P. G. Wiles, B. L. Rhoades described carbon nanotubes as carbon fibers which were produced on carbon anodes during arc discharge. [citeration 15]
R. Smalley, R. Curl, J. Heath, S. O'Brien, and H. Kroto at Rice University discovered fullerene molecule.[citeration 16]
1985
1991
S. Iijima at NEC discovered multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods. Since then, carbon nanotubes are brought into the awareness of the scientific community as a whole [citeration 1]
1993
D. S. Bethune and his group at IBM and S. Iijima at NEC independently discovered single-wall carbon nanotubes and methods to produce them using transition-metal catalysts.[citeration 17], [citeration 2]
1997
M. Bockrath et al from UC Berkeley and S. Tans et al from Delft Univeristy first demonstrated carbon nanotube single-electron transistors. [citeration 19], [citeration 20]
S. Tans et al from Delft Univeristy and R. Martel et al from IBM first demonstrated carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. [citeration 21], [citeration 22]
1998
Tombler TW et al from Stanford first proved that bending carbon nanotubes changes their resistance, in a demonstration [citeration 23]
2000
2001
P. Collins at IBM first reported a technique for separating semiconducting and metallic nanotubes. [citeration 24]
2002
Two Chinese Scientists Q. Zheng and Q. Jiang, first demonstrated multi-walled nano tubes to be the fastest known oscillators (>50GHz). [citeration 25]
2003
NEC announced a stable fabrication technology of carbon nanotube transistors. [citeration 26]
2004
L.X. Zheng et al first published a photo of an individual 4cm long single-wall carbon nanotube. [citeration 27]
2005
May - A prototype HD screen using nanotubes was exhibited by Motorola.[citeration 28]
August - P. R. Bandaru, C. Daraio et al found a Y-shaped nanotube stobe as a ready-made transistors.[citeration 29]
August - GE announced the development of an ideal carbon nanotube diode that operates at the "theoretical limit,"; J. U. Lee's group at GE observed a photovoltaic effect in the nanotube diode device.[citeration 30]
Nov. - R. G. Ellis-Behnke et al first used nanofiber for brain repair and axon regeneratio.n[citeration 32]
March - Z. Chen et al at IBM created a logic circuit by using CNT. [citeration 31]
June - H. Peng et al at Rice University first sorted nanotubes by size and electrical properties. [citeration 33]
2006
Y. J. Lee et al at MIT built a virus battery with carbon nanotubes. [citeration 34]
2009
Jan. - A. D. Franklin at IBM created a 9nm carbon nanotube transistor that outperforms silicon. [citeration 35]
Aug. - 3 groups of researchers at RPI made the thinest paper battery by using carbon nanotubes. [citeration 36]
2012
M. Shulaker et al at Standford build the first carbon nanotube computer. [citeration 4]
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