Organized Networks of Carbon Nanotubes

In this book, meshes and networks formed out of multiwalled carbon nanotubes are investigated and analyzed, including their use in niche applications such as electro-optic devices, advanced mechanical, thermal and electrical property enhancement, and gene editing. Different properties of multi-walled carbon nanotubes, including random network formation, ordering the meshes and networks by mechanical agitation and application of an external field, using crystallization and cross-linking induced phase separation in homopolymers-CNT composites are discussed with theoretical analysis. The book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in Electrical Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering; Chemical Engineering and Nanotechnology, Electronic circuit design, manufacturing, and characterization.

Prof. KRV Subramanian is working as Professor with Mechanical engineering department and Co-Research Coordinator, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India. His research interests are solar technology, nanotechnology, carbon nanotubes, fuel cells, energy storage, sensors. He earned his PhD from Cambridge University in 2006 specialising in nanotechnology. His bachelors and masters degree in Materials engineering were from NIT Trichy and IISc Bangalore. He has over 20 years of academic and industrial work experience. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers. He has also edited 2 books. He is a Marquis Who’s who of the World and IBC Top 100 professionals. He has been co-principal investigator for many government funded research projects.

Dr. Aravinda CL Rao is working as a General Manager at Product Application & Research Center, Reliance Industries Ltd., Vadodara. After completing his doctoral studies at Bangalore University in 2001, he pursued his post-doctoral work at IISc., Bangalore, as an Alexander Humboldt fellow at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany and University of California at Riverside, USA. His research interests encompass nanotechnology, graphene based advanced materials, polymer composites, biosensors, thin films and coatings forelectronics. He has rich and varied academic as well as industrial R&D experience ofover 18 years in multinational companies. He has authored more than 25 papers in reputed journals, a book chapter and several conference papers. He has handled large to medium scale R&D projects successfully and has established and managed large research labs.

Dr. Raji George is a Professor and Head in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Ramaiah Institute of Technology (RIT), Bangalore. His areas of interests include subjects like Nano Technology, Mechanics of Materials, design and Finite element methods. He earned his Ph.D from Visweswaraya Technological University (VTU) in 2008. He has more than 33 years experience in academia and teaching. He was awarded Scientific award of excellence of 2011 by American biographical Institute.He was conferred the Best engineering teacher Gold Medal Award for the year 2009 Instituted by Sir. M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Foundation, Bangalore. He has more than 40 journal and conference papers to his credit. He has 1 patent granted and applied for 1 patent. He is the Principal investigator for a major research project for Boeing Inc. USA.