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1、ARTICLEpubs.acs.org/jchemeducChemistryofCarbonNanotubesforEveryone,†‡§§§SharmisthaBasu-Dutt,*MarilynL.Minus,RahulJain,DhritiNepal,andSatishKumar†DepartmentofChemistry,UniversityofWestGeorgia,Carrollton,Georgia30118,UnitedStates‡DepartmentofMechanicalandIndustrialEngineering,North
2、easternUniversity,Boston,Massachusetts02115,UnitedStates§SchoolofMaterialsScienceandEngineering,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology,Atlanta,Georgia30332-0295,UnitedStatesABSTRACT:Carbonnanotubes(CNTs)havetheextraordinarypoten-tialtochangeourlivesbyimprovingexistingproductsandenablingnew
3、ones.CurrentandfutureresearchandindustrialworkforceprofessionalsareverylikelytoencountersomeaspectsofnanotechnologyincludingCNTscienceandtechnologyintheireducationorprofession.ThesimplestructureandinterestingchemistryofCNTsmaketheirinclusioninanundergraduatecurriculumappropriate.
4、AnoverviewofthechemistryofCNTsispresentedstartingwithabriefhistoryfollowedbydiscussionsonchemicalstructure,exceptionalproperties,potentialapplications,natureoftechnologicalchallenges,andpossiblesolutionsthatwillexpandtheoptimalutilizationofthesematerialsinthenearfuture.Thisarticl
5、eisintendedtobeastartingpointfordevelopingavarietyofCNT-basedundergraduateprojects.KEYWORDS:GeneralPublic,Upper-DivisionUndergraduate,AnalyticalChemistry,Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary,OrganicChemistry,PhysicalChemistry,Textbooks/ReferenceBooks,ApplicationsofChemistry,Consum
6、erChemistry,NanotechnologyOverthepastdecade,theterm“nano”hasfoundaprominentyouhavemadeapartandyouunscrewthenutfromabolt,itisn’tplaceinavarietyofprofessionalandpopularmedia.Therearegoingtofalldownbecausethegravityisn’tappreciable;itwouldbemanydifferentopinionsaboutwherethisnewandfa
7、stevolvingevenhardtogetitoffthebolt.”Inthelightofthisremarkaboutglobalcross-disciplinaryundertakingwillleadus,butmanywouldnanoscaleaggregation(sticking)phenomena,itiseasytounderstandagreethatithastheextraordinarypotentialtochangeourlivesbytheproblemsofdispersingnanomaterialsintoag
8、ivenmedia.Healsoimprovingexistingtechnol
