Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Research
| Faculty: Ramez Ahangharnejhad , Randy Ellingson , Michael Heben , Dengbing Li , Adam Phillips , Zhaoning Song , Yanfa Yan |
| Students: Fadhil Alfadhili , Ebin Bastola , Manoj Jamarkattel , Chandan Kadur , Kamala Khanal Subedi , Dipendra Pokhrel , Gazi Quader , Niraj Shrestha , Biswas Subedi |
| Alumni: Khagendra Bhandari , Jonathan DeWitt , Sara Floyd , Neale Haugen , Max Junda , Rajendra Khanal , Patrick Krantz , Geethika Liyanage , Nafsika Theodoropoulous , Brandon Tompkins , Suneth Watthage |
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are a single layer of carbon rolled into a seamless tube that has remarkable optical, electrical, and thermal properties, including ballistic electrical conductivity and diameter dependent bandgap. Uncontrolled synthesis of SWCNTs, though, results in 1/3 of the SWCNTs being metallic and 2/3 being semiconducting, of which the bandgaps are polydisperse. At PVIC, we are studying the SWCNTs in the natural poydisperse state, developing ways to separate the SWCNTs, and using the SWCNTs in solar cell applications. Click through the slide show to learn more about our projects.