SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT) — Department of Commerce SBIR Phase I: Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have unique material properties making them very a
SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT) — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Commerce.
- Amount
- $89,957
- Agency
- Department of Commerce · National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- OK
- Period
- —
Description
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have unique material properties making them very attractive for use in a variety of electronic applications. However, as-grown SWCNTs contain a mixture of tubes with heterogeneous optical and electronic properties. The chiral species must be separated in order to maximize the desired properties. To date, no large scale separation process has been accomplished. This Phase I project seeks to extend the promising technique developed at NIST to demonstrate single-chirality CNT separation, at laboratory scale.