Publications


                                                                                                               
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2008

274. S. Sahoo, R. Marangati, S. Lastella, G. Mallick, S. Karna, P. Sharma, P. M. Ajayan, "Reversible separation of SWNT s in bundles" Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 083120 (2008).

273. T. N. Narayanan, M. M. Shaijumon, P. M. Ajayan and M. R. Anantharaman, "
Synthesis of High Coercivity Cobalt Nanotubes with Acetate Precursors and Elucidation of the Mechanism of Growth" J. Phys. Chem. C (2008) DOI: 10.1021/jp8035007

272. L. Ci, J. Suhr, V. Pushparaj, X. Zhang, P. M. Ajayan, "Continuous carbon nanotube reinforced composites"  Nano Lett. 10.1021/nl8012715 (2008)


271.
L. Ci, Z. Xu, L. Wang, W. Gao, F. Ding, K. F. Kelly, B. I. Yackobson and P. M. Ajayan, "Controlled Nanocutting of Graphene"  Nano Research, 1, 116 (2008).


270.
G. Schemera, C. Kwan, P. M. Ajayan, R. Vajtai and L. B. Kish, "
Fluctuation-Enhanced sensing: Status and Perspectives" IEEE Sensors Journal, 8, 714 (2008)

269. Y. Wang, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhu, Z. Li, R. Vajtai, L. Ci and P. M. Ajayan, "Nanostructured VO2 photocatalysts for hydrogen production" ACS Nano 2, 1492 (2008) .


268. S. K. Pal, Y. Son, T. Borca-Tasciuc, Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc, S. Kar, R. Vajtai, and P. M. Ajayan, "Thermal and electrical transport along MWCNT arrays grown on Inconel substrates" J. Mater. Res. 8, 2099 (2008)

267.
F. S. Ou, M. M. Shaijumon and P. M. Ajayan, Controlled manipulation of giant hybrid in-organic assemblies" Nano Lett. 8, 1853 (2008)


266.
M. M. Shaijumon, F. S. Ou, L. Ci and P. M. Ajayan. "Synthesis of hybrid nanowire arrays and their application as high power supercapacitor electrodes" Chem. Commun., 20, 2373 (2008).

 

265. Punbusayakul, N, L. Ci, S. Talapatra, W. Surareungchai, P. M. Ajayan,  "Ultra-long MWNT for electrochemical sensing" J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 8, 2085 (2008).

264. 
S. Sreekala, X. H. Peng, P. M. Ajayan, Nayak, S.K. "
Effect of strain on the band gap and effective mass of zigzag single-wall carbon nanotubes: First-principles density-functional calculations" Phys. Rev. B. 77, 155434 (2008).

263. N. Halonen, K. Korda, G. Toth, T. Mustonen, J. Maklin, J. Vahakangas, P. M. Ajayan and R. Vajtai. "Controlled CCVD synthesis of robust multiwalled CNT films" J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, 6723 (2008).


262.
T. Mustonen, J. Mäklin, K. Kordás, N. Halonen, G. Tóth, S. Saukko, J. Vähäkangas, H. Jantunen, S. Kar, P. M. Ajayan, R. Vajtai, P. Helistö, H. Seppä,  H. Moilanen. "Controlled Ohmic and nonlinear electrical transport in inkjet-printed SWNT films" Phys. Rev. B. 77, 125430 (2008).

 
261. A. Goyal, A. Kumar, S. Kar, C. Soldano and P. M. Ajayan. "Temperature dependent high-bias electrical properties of C60 microrods" J. Appl. Phys. 103, 064903 (2008).


260.
M. Endo, M. S. Strano and P. M. Ajayan, "Potential applications of carbon nanotubes" Carbon nanotubes, Topics in Applied Physics, 111, 13-61 (2008)


259.
Y. Zhou, S. Sreekala, P. M. Ajayan and S. K. Nayak, "Resistance of Cu nanowires and comparison with CNT bundles for interconnect applications using first principles calculations" J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20, 095209 (2008) 


258.
S. Sethi, L. Ge, L. Ci, P. M. Ajayan and A. Dhinojwala, "Gecko-inspired Carbon nanotube based self cleaning adhesives"
Nano Letters 12-Feb-2008

257. 
Y. Son,
S. K. Pal, T. Borca- Tasciuc, P. M. Ajayan and R. W. Siegel, "Thermal resistance of the native interface between vertically aligned MWNT and their SiO2/Si substrate"  J. Appl. Phys. 103, 024911 (2008).

256.
A. Kumar, P. K. Vemula,  P. M. Ajayan and G. John, "Silver-nanoparticle-embedded antimicrobial paints based on vegetable oil" Nature Materials  20-Jan-2008


255. Z. Yang, L. Ci, J. A. Bur, S. Y. Lin and  P. M. Ajayan, "Experimental Observation of an extremely dark material made by a low-density nanotube array" Nano Letters 09-Jan-2008


254.
S. K. Pal, S. Talapatra, S. Kar, L. Ci, R. Vajtai, T. Borca- Tasciuc,
L. S. Schadler and P. M. Ajayan, "Time and temperature dependence of multiwalled carbon nanotube growth on Inconel 600" Nanotechnology 19, 045610 (2008).


253. 
S. Kim, S. Pal, P. M. Ajayan, T. Borca- Tasciuc and N. Koratkar, "Electrical breakdown gas detector featuring carbon nanotube array electrodes" J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 8, 1 (2008).


2007


252. X. G. Xu, J. Geuther, G. Baker, S. Pal, Y. Danon, T. M. Lu and P. M. Ajayan, "Measurements of X-rays from nanotubes and nanorods"  Transactions of American Nuclear Society 96, 24 (2007).

251. L. Muthaswamy, Y. Zheng, R. Vajtai, G. Shehkawat, P. M. Ajayan and R. E. Geer, "Variation of radial elasticity in multiwalled carbon  nanotubes" Nano Letters 7, 3891 (2007)


250.  S. Kaur, S. Sahoo, P. M. Ajayan and R. S. Kane, "Capillarity-driven assembly of carbon nanotubes on substrates into dense vertically aligned arrays" Adv. Mater. 19, 2984 (2007).

249.  D. Grimm, P. Venezuela, F. Banhart, N. Grobert, H. Terrones, P. M. Ajayan, M. Terrones and A. Latge, "Synthesis of SWNT Rings Made by Two Y Junctions and Possible Applications in Electron Interferometry" Small, 3, 1900 (2007).

248.
V. L. Pushparaj, L. Ci, S. Sreekala, A. Kumar, S. Kesapragada, D. Gall, O. Nalamasu, J. Suhr and P. M. Ajayan, “Effects of compressive strains on electrical conductivities of a macroscale  carbon nanotube blockAppl. Phys. Lett. 91, 153116 (2007).

247. L. Ci, M. M. Shaijumon, X. Li, R. Vajtai, and P. M. Ajayan, “Ultrathick Freestanding Aligned Nanotube Films” Adv. Mater. 19, 3300 (2007).
 

246. Y. Zhang, S. Talapatra, S. Kar, R. Vajtai, S. K. Nayak and P. M. Ajayan, “First-principles study of defect-induced magnetism in carbon” Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 107201 (2007).

245. P. Shemella, Y. Zhang, M. Mailman, P. M. Ajayan and S. K. Nayak, “Energy gaps in zero-dimensional graphene nanoribbons” Appl. Phys.Lett. 91, 042101 (2007).

244. V. L. Pushparaj, M. M. Shaijumon, A. Kumar, S. Murugesan, L. Ci, R. Vajtai, R. J. Linhardt, O. Nalamasu, and P. M. Ajayan, “Flexible energy storage devices based on nanocomposite paper“,  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 104, 13574 (2007).

243. J. Suhr, P. Victor, L. Ci, S. Sreekala, X. Zhang, O. Nalamasu, and P. M. Ajayan, “Fatigue resistance of aligned carbon nanotube arrays under cyclic compression” Nature Nanotechnology, 2, 417 (2007).  

242. T. J. Simmons, D. Hashim, R. Vajtai, and P. M. Ajayan, "Large area-aligned arrays from direct deposition of single-wall carbon nanotube inks", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 10088 (2007).

241. P. M. Ajayan and J. Tour, “Nanotube composites”, Nature, 447, 1066 (2007).


240. L. Ge, S. Sethi, L. Ci, P. M. Ajayan and A. Dhinojwala, Carbon nanotube-based synthetic gecko-tapes”, Proc. Nat. Acad. of Sci., 104, 10792 (2007).               

239. L. Ci, R. Vajtai, and P. M. Ajayan, "Vertically aligned large-diameter double-walled carbon nanotube arrays having ultralow density", J. Phys. Chem. C, 111, 9077 (2007).

238. L. Ci, N. Punbusayakul, J. Wei, R. Vajtai, S. Talapatra, and P. M. Ajayan, "Multifunctional macroarchitectures of double-walled carbon nanotube fibers", Adv. Mater., 19, 1719 (2007).

237. F. Ou, M. M. Shaijumon, L. Ci and P. M. Ajayan, " Template assembly of the tube-in-tube carbon nanotubes grown using Cu as catalyst" Carbon 45, 1713 (2007).

236. T. Borca-Tasciuc, M. Mazumder, Y. Son, S. K. Pal, L. S. Schadler, and P. M. Ajayan, "Anisotropic thermal diffusivity characterization of aligned carbon nanotube-polymer composites", J. Nanosci. Nanotech., 7, 1581 (2007).

235. K. Kordas, T. Mustonen, G. Toth, J. Vahakangas, A. Uusimaki, H. Jantunen, A. Gupta, K. V. Rao, R. Vajtai, and P. M. Ajayan, “Magnetic-field induced efficient alignment of carbon nanotubes in aqueous solutions”, Chem. Mater., 19, 787 (2007). 

234. V. A. Mallia, P. K. Vemula, G. John, A. Kumar, and P. M. Ajayan, "In-situ synthesis and assembly of gold nanoparticles embedded in glass-forming liquid crystals", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 1 (2007).

233. R. Vajtai, B. Q. Wei, T. F. George and P. M. Ajayan, "Chemical vapor deposition of organized architectures of carbon nanotubes for applications",
Topics in Appl. Phys. 109, 188 (2007).

232. A. Kumar, S. Murugesan, V. Pushparaj, J. Xie, C. Soldano, G. John, O. Nalamasu, P. M. Ajayan, and R. J. Linhardt, “Conducting organic-metallic composite  submicrometer rods based on ionic liquids”, Small, 3, 429 (2007).               


231. P. M. V. Raja, J. Connolley, G. P. Ganesan, L. Ci, P. M. Ajayan, O. Nalamasu, and D. M. Thompson, “Impact of carbon nanotube exposure, dosage and
aggregation on smooth muscle cells”, Toxicology Letters,  169, 51 (2007). 


230.
N. Punbusayakul, S. Talapatra, L. Ci, W. Surareungchai, and P. M. Ajayan, “Double-walled carbon nanotube electrodes for electrochemical sensing”, Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, 10 (5), F13 (2007).


229. S. Lastella, H. C. Yang, D. Rider, I. Manners, P. M. Ajayan, and C. Y. Ryu, “Influences of organometallic polymer-derived catalyst dispersion on SWNT
growth”, J. Polymer Sci. B – Polymer Physics, 45, 758 (2007). 


228. L. M. Dell'Acqua-Bellavitis, J. D. Ballard, R. Vajtai, P. M. Ajayan, and R. W. Siegel, “The role of dislocations at the catalyst-wall interface in carbon nanotube  growth”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 111, 2623 (2007).


227. T. Borca-Tasciuc, M. Mazumder, Y. Son, S. K. Pal, L. S. Schadler, and P. M. Ajayan, “Anisotropic thermal diffusivity characterization of aligned carbon
nanotube-polymer composites”, J. Nanosci & Nanotechnology, 7, 1581 (2007). 
                                                


226. X. S. Li, G. Y. Zhu, J. S. Dordick, and P. M. Ajayan, “Compression-modulated tunable-pore carbon-nanotube membrane filters”, Small, 3 (4), 1613 (2007).


225. X. Li, L. Ci, S. Kar, C. Soldano, S. J. Kilpatrick, and P. M. Ajayan, “Densified aligned carbon nanotube films via vapor phase infiltration of carbon”, Carbon, 45, 847 (2007).


224. Z. Wang, N. Koratkar, L. Ci, and P. M. Ajayan,"Combined micro-/nanoscale surface roughness for enhanced hydrophobic stability in carbon nanotube arrays, Appl. Phys. Lett., 90, 143117 (2007).


223.
K. Kordás, G. Tóth, P. Moilanen, M. Kumpumäki, J. Vähäkangas, A. Uusimäki, R. Vajtai, and P. M. Ajayan, "Chip cooling with integrated carbon nanotube microfin architectures", Appl. Phys. Letters 90, 123105 (2007).


222.
Z.Wang, L. Ci, L. Chen, S. Nayak, P. M. Ajayan, and Nikhil Koratkar, Polarity-Dependent Electrochemically Controlled Transport of Water
through Carbon Nanotube Membranes,
Nanoletters, 7, 697 (2007).


221.
P. M. Ajayan, Research Highlights (Journal Club), Nature, 445, 5 (2007).


220. H. J. Lezec, J. J. McMahon, O. Nalamasu, and P. M. Ajayan, “Submicrometer dimple array based interference color field displays and sensors”, Nano Letters, 7, 329 (2007).      


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