Quasi-Langmuir-Blodgett Thin Film Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes

The handling and manipulation of carbon nanotubes continues to be a challenge to those interested in the application potential of these promising materials. To this end, we have developed a method to deposit pure nanotube films over large flat areas on substrates of arbitrary composition. The method bears some resemblance to the Langmuir-Blodgett deposition method used to lay down thin organic layers. We show that this redeposition technique causes no major changes in the films' microstructure and that they retain the electronic properties of as-deposited film laid down on an alumina membrane.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, submitted Journal of Applied Physic

The longitudinal KAM-cocycle of a magnetic flow

Let $M$ be a closed oriented surface of negative Gaussian curvature and let $\Omega$ be a non-exact 2-form. Let $\lambda$ be a small positive real number. We show that the longitudinal KAM-cocycle of the magnetic flow given by \la \Omega is a coboundary if and only if the Gaussian curvature is constant and $\Omega$ is a constant multiple of the area form