Provided herein is a nanopore structure, which in one aspect is a “carbon nanotube porin”, that comprises a short nanotube with an associated lipid coating. Also disclosed are compositions and methods enabling the preparation of such nanotube/lipid complexes. Further disclosed is a method for therapeutics delivery that involves a drug delivery agent comprising a liposome with a NT loaded with a therapeutic agent, introducing the therapeutic agent into a cell or a tissue or an organism; and subsequent release of the therapeutic agents into a cell.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a rubber composition for tires and a method for producing same, wherein the rubber composition for tires includes: carbon nanotubes including structural defects on at least a portion of the surface and having a thermal decomposition temperature equal to or less than 600° C.; and a rubber matrix.

An electrode includes an insulating surface layer and at least one aligned carbon nanotube fiber embedded in the insulating surface layer. Each of the at least one aligned carbon nanotube fiber has a first end and a second end opposite the first end, and the first end and the second end are separated by a body. Each of the at least one aligned carbon nanotube fiber is composed of a plurality of carbon nanotubes. The first end and the second end are free of the insulating surface layer. The second end is in contact with an electrical conductive material. A method of analyzing an analyte in a sample and a device for energy storage using the electrode are also described.

A lithium-ion hybrid supercapacitor comprising (i) an electrode comprising nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (N-CNTs), and (ii) an electrode comprising an electrically conductive graphene material. The supercapacitor can comprise an electrolyte which is a solution of (i) a lithium salt selected from Li[PF.sub.2(C.sub.2O.sub.4)2], Li[SO.sub.3CF.sub.3], Li[N(CF.sub.3SO.sub.2).sub.2], Li[C(CF.sub.3SO.sub.2).sub.3], Li[N(SO.sub.2C.sub.2F.sub.5).sub.2], LiClO.sub.4, LiPF.sub.6, LiAsF.sub.6, LiBF.sub.4, LiB(C.sub.6F.sub.5).sub.4, LiB(C.sub.6H.sub.5).sub.4, Li[B(C.sub.2O.sub.4).sub.2], Li[BF.sub.2(C.sub.2O.sub.4)], and a mixture of any two or more thereof, and (ii) a solvent selected form dimethyl carbonate (DMC), ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC), diethyl carbonate (DEC), methyl propyl carbonate (MPC), ethyl propyl carbonate (EPC), ethylene carbonate (EC), propylene carbonate (PC), and a mixture of any two or more thereof

A low carbon footprint material is used to decrease the carbon dioxide emission for production of a high carbon footprint substance. A method of forming composite materials comprises providing a first high carbon footprint substance; providing a carbon nanomaterial produced with a carbon-footprint of less than 10 unit weight of carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) emission during production of 1 unit weight of the carbon nanomaterial; and forming a composite comprising the high carbon footprint substance and from 0.001 wt % to 25 wt % of the carbon nanomaterial, wherein the carbon nanomaterial is homogeneously dispersed in the composite to reduce the carbon dioxide emission for producing the composite material relative to the high carbon footprint substance.

A soft physiotherapy instrument includes a flexible sheet and a controller. The flexible sheet includes a first flexible layer, a second flexible layer, a plurality of functional layers located between the first flexible layer and the second flexible layer, and a plurality of electrodes electrically connected with the plurality of functional layers. The functional layer includes a carbon nanotube layer including a plurality of carbon nanotubes uniformly distributed. The flexible sheet is electrically coupled with the controller via the plurality of electrodes. A method for using the soft physiotherapy instrument is further provided.

Carbon nanostructures are used to prepare electrode compositions for lithium ion batteries. In one example, an anode for a Li ion battery includes three-dimensional carbon nanostructures made of highly entangled nanotubes, fragments of carbon nanostructures and/or fractured nanotubes, which are derived from the carbon nanostructures, are branched and share walls with one another. Amounts of carbon nanostructures employed can be less than or equal to 0.5 weight % relative to the weight of the electrode composition.

A composite material includes electro-deposited manganese dioxide particles of up to 110 micron in size and in a form of γ-modification of manganese dioxide; and single-walled carbon nanotubes with a diameter of 1 to 2 nm and a length of 1 to 5 μm, wherein a content of the carbon nanotubes is 0.0001 to 0.1 wt % of the composite material. Optionally, the particles have an average size of about 40-60 microns. Optionally, the carbon nanotubes form a coating on a surface of the particles and extend inward from the surface. Optionally, the single-wall carbon nanotubes form a three-dimensional conductive network in the material.

Method for producing single wall carbon nanotubes, including obtaining a vapor containing nanoparticles of a catalytic substance in an evaporation chamber; obtaining a working mixture in a mixing node at 650-1,400° C. by delivering the vapor to the mixing node from the evaporation chamber in a carrier gas flow, and introducing gaseous hydrocarbons into the mixing node so that the working mixture includes the carrier gas, hydrocarbons, and the nanoparticles, with the nanoparticles having an average size of 1-10 nm, and single wall carbon nanotubes forming on the nanoparticles; feeding the working mixture at 650-1,400° C. to the reaction chamber, the reaction chamber having a distance of at least 0.5 m between its opposite walls; discharging the single wall carbon nanotubes from the reaction chamber in a stream of gaseous products of hydrocarbon decomposition; filtering the single wall carbon nanotubes from the gaseous products of hydrocarbon decomposition.

Applicability to a composite material with high purity and high strength, and a material requiring high conductivity or high thermal conductivity is enhanced. The present invention relates to a multi-walled carbon nanotube having two or more tubes of a graphene sheet where carbon atoms are arranged in a hexagonal honeycomb form, coaxially, wherein a diameter of an outermost wall based on observation of an image by a transmission electron microscope is 3 nm or more and 15 nm or less, and a length based on observation of an image of a scanning electron microscope is 1.0 mm or more, an aggregate of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and a method for preparing the multi-walled carbon nanotube.