Tuesday, 30 May 2017: 11:00
Churchill B1 (Hilton New Orleans Riverside)
Teslaphoresis is the directed motion and self-assembly of matter by radiofrequency energy transmitted from a Tesla coil. Carbon nanotubes placed within the Teslaphoretic field polarize and rapidly self-assemble into wires (< 5 s) that span from the nanoscale to the macroscale, the longest thus far being 15 cm. We also show the self-assembly of long nanotube wires at a remote distance (> 30 cm away from the antenna) and that the transmitter wirelessly powers nanotube-based LED circuits that harvest energy directly from the Teslaphoretic field. Furthermore, we found that individualized carbon nanotubes in suspension self-organize into large-scale, parallel arrays on a substrate with high fidelity alignment to the direction of the transmitted electric field. Thus, the Teslaphoretic system may be an effective tool for scalable manufacturing of carbon nanotube transistors and conductive fibers.