TY - GEN
T1 - Metal-filled Carbon Nanotubes for NanoMechatronics
AU - Dong, Lixin
AU - Tao, Xinyong
AU - Zhang, Li
AU - Zhang, Xiaobin
AU - Nelson, Bradley J.
PY - 2008/7
Y1 - 2008/7
N2 - Inter-nanotube mass transport along the central pores of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is a fundamental problem for CNT-based nanofluidic devices. Besides the interest for testing classical theories of fluid flow at the nanoscale, CNT fluidic junctions are basic elements for more complex fluidic systems. Controlled melting, evaporation and flowing of copper and tin intra-/inter-nanotube shells are investigated experimentally. Capto-wall and wall-to-cap mass flow are realized by electric current driven heating, diffusion, and electromigration under low bias voltages between 1.5 V and 1.8 V. A comparison shows that the mass loss for the cap-to-wall architecture is much smaller than that for the wall-to-cap junction. Experimental investigation of electron-beam induced flowing of tin inside a kinked CNT shows the deformation of the junction, showing potential applications in actuations for nanofluidic relay, gripper fingers, or manipulator arms.
AB - Inter-nanotube mass transport along the central pores of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is a fundamental problem for CNT-based nanofluidic devices. Besides the interest for testing classical theories of fluid flow at the nanoscale, CNT fluidic junctions are basic elements for more complex fluidic systems. Controlled melting, evaporation and flowing of copper and tin intra-/inter-nanotube shells are investigated experimentally. Capto-wall and wall-to-cap mass flow are realized by electric current driven heating, diffusion, and electromigration under low bias voltages between 1.5 V and 1.8 V. A comparison shows that the mass loss for the cap-to-wall architecture is much smaller than that for the wall-to-cap junction. Experimental investigation of electron-beam induced flowing of tin inside a kinked CNT shows the deformation of the junction, showing potential applications in actuations for nanofluidic relay, gripper fingers, or manipulator arms.
KW - Carbon nanotube
KW - Mass transport
KW - Nanofluidic junction
KW - Nanofluidics
KW - Nanomechatronics
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/52649144792
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/pubmetrics.uri?eid=2-s2.0-52649144792&origin=recordpage
U2 - 10.1109/AIM.2008.4601786
DO - 10.1109/AIM.2008.4601786
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9781424424955
SN - 9781424424948
T3 - IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM
SP - 933
EP - 937
BT - Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
T2 - 2008 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2008)
Y2 - 2 July 2008 through 5 July 2008
ER -