August 2, 2002Science
Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications
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Implication
Review reveals uneven commercial progress across carbon nanotube applications, highlighting cost and assembly hurdles for single-walled nanoscale electronics.
Key Points
- To review proposed technological applications of carbon nanotubes and identify current practical achievements alongside engineering bottlenecks.
- Synthesized development progress across proposed functional domains, including structural composites, energy systems, sensors, displays, and nanoelectronics.
- Evaluated manufacturing constraints, cost factors, and structural limitations affecting the implementation of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
- Commercial adoption is actively realized in conductive composites and select energy or sensor devices, while advanced semiconductor applications remain in developmental prototype stages.
- Proposed utilization of carbon nanotubes for hydrogen storage media remains unresolved and subject to scientific controversy.
- Material polydispersity, high production costs, and assembly constraints represent major operational barriers to deploying single-walled nanotubes in scalable electronics.
Cite This Study
Baughman et al. (2002) studied this question.