Nanocarbon Materials and Devices: Volume 1451: (MRS Proceedings)

Symposium DD, 'De Novo Carbon Nanomaterials' and Symposium EE, 'New Functional Nanocarbon Devices' were held April 9–13 at the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. A variety of electronic, mechanical, optical and chemical properties of carbon nanomaterials derive from its different allotropes including nanotubes, fullerenes, diamond, amorphous carbon and grapheme. Applications of such multiscale-engineered materials are diverse and range from nano-electronics to novel construction materials, and could have wide-ranging implications to facilitate new technological innovations at the interface of materials science, engineering and biology. This symposium proceedings volume represents the recent advances in the manufacturing, synthesis and modeling of carbon nanomaterials with applications in novel devices.

Table of Contents:
Part I. Theory and Modeling: 1. On the unzipping mechanisms of carbon nanotubes: insights from reactive molecular dynamics simulations; 2. Redesign of carbon materials for novel storage, mechanical and optical properties; 3. When small is different: the case of membranes inside tubes; 4. Simulation of nanoscale etching for nanotube and graphene devices; Part II. Graphene: 5. Growth of CVD graphene on copper by rapid thermal processing; 6. Sputter oriented nickel and defect inhibitors in graphene; 7. Thermo-chemical metastability of multilayer epitaxial graphene oxide: experiments and density functional theory calculations; 8. Large-area metrology of CVD-grown graphene layers on copper foil substrates; 9. Graphene metrology using fluorescence quenching of different fluorescent dyes; 10. Effects of process tube position on properties of graphene layers; 11. MnO2 decorated three dimensional graphene heterostructures for supercapacitor electrodes; 12. Generation of hydrogen peroxide on a pyridine-like nitrogen-nickel doped graphene surface; 13. Layer-by-layer assembled transparent conductive graphene films for solar cells application; Part III. Carbon Nanotubes: 14. Synthesis of three dimensional carbon nanostructure foams for supercapacitors; 15. Role of gas-phase reactions and thermal gradient control in carbon nanotube synthesis; 16. Growth of carbon nanotube forests on carbon fibers with a SiO2 interlayer; 17. Functionalization of carbon nanotubes with arenedyazonium salts in urea; 18. Few-wall carbon nanotubes covalently functionalized by ferrocene groups for bioelectrochemical devices;19. Characterization of plasma synthesized vertical carbon nanofibers for nanoelectronics applications; Part IV. Composites and Related Materials: 20. Conductivity of graphene-like thin films prepared from chemically exfoliated carbon nanotubes (CNTs), highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), natural flake graphite, and carbon powder; 21. Surface modifications of graphene-based polymer nanocomposites by different synthesis techniques; 22. Polyoxometalate clusters supported on functionalized graphene sheets as nanohybrids for the catalytic combustion of liquid fuels; 23. Structural control of carbon nickel thin films without substrate heating; 24. Spatially resolved compositional analysis of a BCN thin film grown on a Ni substrate by chemical vapor deposition; Part V. Devices: 25. Fabrication of thin-film transistors using PECVD-grown carbon nanotubes and their application to integrated circuits; 26. Terahertz light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation in optically pumped graphene; 27. Low-voltage graphene transistors based on self-assembled monolayer nanodielectrics; 28. Dielectric-tuned diamondlike carbon materials for high-performance self-aligned graphene-channel field effect transistors; 29. Detection of lectins using glyco-functionalized nanosensors.