High Permittivity Polymer Composites on the Basis of Long Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: The Role of the Nanotube Length

Advances of the Holographic Technique to Test the Basic Properties of the Thin-Film Organics: Refractivity Change and Novel Mechanism of the Nonlinear Attenuation Prediction

A large number of the thin-film organic structures (polyimides, 2-cyclooctylarnino-5-nitropyridine, N-(4-nitrophenyl)-(L)-prolinol, 2-(n-Prolinol)-5-nitropyridine) sensitized with the different types of the nano-objects (fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, shungites, reduced graphene oxides) are presented, which are studied using the holographic technique under the Raman-Nath diffraction conditions. Pulsed laser irradiation testing of these materials predicts a dramatic increase of the laser-induced refractive index, which is in several orders of the magnitude greater compared to pure materials. The estimated nonlinear refraction coefficients and the cubic nonlinearities for the materials studied are close to or larger than those known for volumetric inorganic crystals. The role of the intermolecular charge transfer complex formation is considered as the essential in the refractivity increase in nano-objects-doped organics. As a new idea, the shift of charge from the intramolecular donor fragment to the intermolecular acceptors can be proposed as the development of Janus particles. The energy losses via diffraction are considered as an additional mechanism to explain the nonlinear attenuation of the laser beam.

70th Year Anniversary of Carbon Nanotube Discovery-Focus on Real-World Solutions

Seventy years ago in 1952, Russian scientists LV Radushkevich and VM Lukyanovich published clear images showing multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with 50 nm diameters [...].