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Carbon Microfibers Sheathed with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: Towards Multidimensional, Multicomponent, and Multifunctional Nanomaterials
Article first published online: 28 JUL 2006
DOI: 10.1002/smll.200600097
Copyright © 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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Qu, L., Zhao, Y. and Dai, L. (2006), Carbon Microfibers Sheathed with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: Towards Multidimensional, Multicomponent, and Multifunctional Nanomaterials. Small, 2: 1052–1059. doi: 10.1002/smll.200600097
Publication History
- Issue published online: 28 JUL 2006
- Article first published online: 28 JUL 2006
- Manuscript Received: 27 FEB 2006
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Keywords:
- carbon nanotubes;
- fibers;
- hybrid structures;
- sensors
Abstract
Multicomponent and multifunctional hybrid structures based on microsized carbon fibers sheathed with aligned carbon nanotubes and their derivatives have been successfully prepared, and have been demonstrated to be an effective means for connecting nanoscale entities to the outside world and to possess interesting electrochemical properties attractive for a wide range of potential applications, including in methanol direct fuel cells and highly sensitive biological and chemical sensors. Judicious modification of the carbon-fiber-supported aligned carbon nanotubes with various functional moieties could lead to a class of novel multidimensional, multicomponent, and multifunctional materials of practical significance.