文档介绍：Published:October 27, 2011Copyrightr2011 American Chemical Society andDivision of Chemical Education, ./|J. Chem. , 89, 221–229ARTICLEpubs./hemistry of Carbon Nanotubes for EveryoneSharmistha Basu-Dutt,*,?Marilyn L. Minus,?Rahul Jain,§Dhriti Nepal,§and Satish Kumar§?Department of Chemistry, University of West ia, Carrollton, ia 30118, United States?Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States§School of Materials Science and Engineering, ia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, ia 30332-0295, United StatesOver the past decade, the term“nano”has found a prominentplace in a variety of professional and popular media. There aremany di?erent opinions about where this new and fast evolvingglobal cross-disciplinary undertaking will lead us, but many wouldagree that it has the extraordinary potential to change our lives byimproving existing technologies to enable newproduct ability to fabricate, characterize, and utilize material structures onthe 1?100 nm scale will profoundly in?uence future research anddevelopments in physics, chemistry, and biology; as well as revolu-tionize bio-, computer, mechanical, and electrical engineering;electronics munications; medicine; transportation; andspace exploration by making new materials, sensors, and ?eld of nanot