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Carbon nanotubes

Four degrees of separation

Nature Materials volume 2, pages 569–570 (2003)Cite this article

The separation of semiconducting and metallic nanotubes from bulk mixed samples is an essential requirement for researchers attempting to fabricate nanotube-based electronic devices. Four reports demonstrate the variety of approaches being used to tackle this problem.

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Figure 1: The experimental set-up used by Krupke et al.1 for selective dielectrophoretic deposition of metallic nanotubes from a sample suspension containing mixed metallic and semiconducting tubes.

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