Three-dimensional manipulation with scanning near-field optical nanotweezers

J Berthelot, SS Aćimović, ML Juan, MP Kreuzer… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Recent advances in nanotechnologies have prompted the need for tools to accurately and
non-invasively manipulate individual nano-objects. Among the possible strategies, optical …

Strategies of nano-manipulation for application in electrochemical biosensors

RM Iost, JM Madurro, AG Brito-Madurro… - International Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Manipulation techniques of materials at nanoscale level have been pointed in the last
decades as a promising tool to develop a new class of modified electrodes applicable in …

Bottom-up nanoconstruction by the welding of individual metallic nanoobjects using nanoscale solder

Y Peng, T Cullis, B Inkson - Nano Letters, 2009 - ACS Publications
We report that individual metallic nanowires and nanoobjects can be assembled and
welded together into complex nanostructures and conductive circuits by a new nanoscale …

The creation of nanojunctions

S Guo - Nanoscale, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This review describes recent progress in creation of nanojunctions between individual
nanoobjects. The accomplishments of various strategies used for nanojunction creation are …

Sliding friction properties of carbon nanotube coatings deposited by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition

A Hirata, N Yoshioka - Tribology International, 2004 - Elsevier
Sliding friction properties of carbon nanotube coatings catalytically deposited by microwave
plasma CVD from a gaseous mixture of methane and hydrogen have been investigated by …

Friction and wear of carbon nanohorn-containing polyimide composites

A Tanaka, K Umeda, M Yudasaka, M Suzuki, T Ohana… - Tribology Letters, 2005 - Springer
Polyimide (PI)-based composites containing single-wall carbon nanohorn aggregate (NH)
were fabricated using the spark plasma sintering (SPS) process. For comparison …

Measurement of the adhesion force between carbon nanotubes and a silicon dioxide substrate

JD Whittaker, ED Minot, DM Tanenbaum… - Nano …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanotube adhesion force measurements were performed on single-walled
nanotubes grown over lithographically defined trenches. An applied vertical force from an …

Sensitivity analysis of nanoparticles manipulation based on different friction models

MH Korayem, M Taheri, M Zakeri - Applied surface science, 2012 - Elsevier
The advent of miniaturization and transition from the macro world to the micro/nano world
has brought into existence materials with more ratio of area to volume. In transition from the …

Spatially resolved Suzuki coupling reaction initiated and controlled using a catalytic AFM probe

JJ Davis, KS Coleman, KL Busuttil… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Appropriately modified proximal probes can be utilized in the spatially resolved chemical
coupling of surface-bound and solution-phase reagents. Herein we report a chemically …

Strain energy and lateral friction force distributions of carbon nanotubes manipulated into shapes by atomic force microscopy

MC Strus, RR Lahiji, P Ares, V Lopez, A Raman… - …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The interplay between local mechanical strain energy and lateral frictional forces determines
the shape of carbon nanotubes on substrates. In turn, because of its nanometer-size …