It is about 15 years that the carbon nanotubes have been discovered by Sumio Iijima in a transmission electron microscope. Since that time, these long hollow cylindrical carbon molecules have revealed being remarkable nanostructures for several aspects. They are composed of just one element, Carbon, and are easily produced by several techniques. A nanotube can bend easily but still is very robust. The nanotubes can be manipulated and contacted to external electrodes. Their diameter is in the nanometer range, whereas their length may exceed several micrometers, if not several millimeters. In diameter, the nanotubes behave like molecules with quantized energy levels, while in length, they behave like a crystal with a continuous distribution of momenta. Depending on its exact atomic structure, a single-wall nanotube –that is to say a nanotube composed of just one rolled-up graphene sheet– may be either a metal or a semiconductor. The nanotubes can carry a large electric current, they are also good thermal conductors. It is not surprising, then, that many applications have been proposed for the nanotubes. At the time of writing, one of their most promising applications is their ability to emit electrons when subjected to an external electric field. Carbon nanotubes can do so in normal vacuum conditions with a reasonable voltage threshold, which make them suitable for cold-cathode devices.

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Synthesis and structural characterization.- ARC DISCHARGE AND LASER ABLATION SYNTHESIS OF SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES.- SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY OF CARBON NANOTUBES.- STRUCTURAL DETERMINATION OF INDIVIDUAL SINGLEWALL CARBON NANOTUBE BY NANOAREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION.- THE STRUCTURAL EFFECTS ON MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES BY THERMAL ANNEALING UNDER VACUUM.- TEM SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR STUDYING THE INTERFACE CNTS-CATALYST-SUBSTRATE.- A METHOD TO SYNTHESIZE AND TAILOR CARBON NANOTUBES BY ELECTRON IRRADIATION IN THE TEM.- SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY STUDIES OF NANOTUBELIKE STRUCTURES ON THE HOPG SURFACE.- INFLUENCE OF CATALYST AND CARBON SOURCE ON THE SYNTHESIS OF CARBON NANOTUBES IN A SEMI-CONTINUOUS INJECTION CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION METHOD.- PECVD GROWTH OF CARBON NANOTUBES.- CARBON NANOTUBES GROWTH AND ANCHORAGE TO CARBON FIBRES.- CVD SYNTHESIS OF CARBON NANOTUBES ON DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES.- INFLUENCE OF THE SUBSTRATE TYPES AND TREATMENTS ON CARBON NANOTUBE GROWTH BY CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION WITH NICKEL CATALYST.- NON CATALYTIC CVD GROWTH OF 2D-ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES.- PYROLYTIC SYNTHESIS OF CARBON NANOTUBES ON Ni, Co, Fe/MCM-41 CATALYSTS.- A GRAND CANONICAL MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY OF CARBON STRUCTURAL AND ADSORPTION PROPERTIES OF INZEOLITE TEMPLATED CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES.- Vibrational properties and optical spectroscopies.- VIBRATIONAL AND RELATED PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOTUBES.- RAMAN SCATTERING OF CARBON NANOTUBES.- RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF ISOLATED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES.- Electronic and optical properties and electrical transport.- ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT IN NANOTUBES AND THROUGH JUNCTIONS OF NANOTUBES.- ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT IN CARBON NANOTUBES AT THE MESOSCOPIC SCALE.- WAVE PACKET DYNAMICAL INVESTIGATION OF STM IMAGING MECHANISMUSING AN ATOMIC PSEUDOPOTENTIAL MODEL OF A CARBON NANOTUBE.- CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS FOR OPTICAL ABSORPTION.- INTERSUBBAND EXCITON RELAXATION DYNAMICS IN SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES.- PECULIARITIES OF THE OPTICAL POLARIZABILITY OF SINGLEWALLED ZIGZAG CARBON NANOTUBE WITH CAPPED AND TAPERED ENDS.- THIRD-ORDER NONLINEARITY AND PLASMON PROPERTIES IN CARBON NANOTUBES.- HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING OF FAST ION INTERACTIONS WITH CARBON NANOTUBES.- LOCAL RESISTANCE OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES AS MEASURED BY SCANNING PROBE TECHNIQUES.- BAND STRUCTURE OF CARBON NANOTUBES EMBEDDED IN A CRYSTAL MATRIX.- MAGNETOTRANSPORT IN 2-D ARRAYS OF SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES.- COMPUTER MODELING OF THE DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCE OF SYMMETRY CONNECTED ARMCHAIR-ZIGZAG HETEROJUNCTIONS.- Molecule adsorption, functionalization and chemical properties.- MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF GAS ADSORPTION AND ABSORPTION IN NANOTUBES.- FIRST-PRINCIPLES AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF METHANE ADSORPTION ON GRAPHENE.- EFFECT OF SOLVENT AND DISPERSANT ON THE BUNDLE DISSOCIATION OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES.- CARBON NANOTUBES WITH VACANCIES UNDER EXTERNAL MECHANICAL STRESS AND ELECTRIC FIELD.- Mechanical properties of nanotubes and composite materials.- MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THREE-TERMINAL NANOTUBE JUNCTION DETERMINED FROM COMPUTER SIMULATIONS.- OSCILLATION OF THE CHARGED DOUBLEWALL CARBON NANOTUBE.- POLYMER CHAINS BEHAVIOR IN NANOTUBES: A MONTE CARLO STUDY.- CARBON NANOTUBES AS CERAMIC MATRIX REINFORCEMENTS.- CARBON NANOTUBES AS POLYMER BUILDING BLOCKS.- SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EPOXY-SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITES.- VAPOUR GROWN CARBON NANO-FIBERS – POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES AND THEIR PROPERTIES.- Applications.- NANOTECHNOLOGY: CHALLENGES OF CONVERGENCE, HETEROGENEITY ANDHIERARCHICAL INTEGRATION.- BEHAVIOR OF CARBON NANOTUBES IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS.- MOLECULAR DYNAMICS OF CARBON NANOTUBE-POLYPEPTIDE COMPLEXES AT THE BIOMEMBRANE-WATER INTERFACE.- THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT OF NANOFLUIDS.- CARBON NANOTUBES AS ADVANCED LUBRICANT ADDITIVES.- SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF IRON NANOSTRUCTURES INSIDE POROUS ZEOLITES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES.- NANOSTRUCTURED CARBON GROWTH BY AN EXPANDING RADIOFREQUENCY PLASMA JET.- DESIGN AND RELATIVE STABILITY OF MULTICOMPONENT NANOWIRES.- MODELING OF MOLECULAR ORBITAL AND SOLID STATE PACKING POLYMER CALCULATIONS ON THE BI-POLARON NATURE OF CONDUCTING SENSOR POLY(P-PHENYLENE).- ND:LSB MICROCHIP LASER AS A PROMISING INSTRUMENT FOR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY.