Abstract: Provided is a method for treating single-walled carbon nanotube, comprising: (1) allowing single-walled carbon nanotubes to contact with a surfactant and a dispersant sequentially in the present of a solvent, to obtain highly dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes in which the content of single dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes is not lower than 50 wt %, wherein, the single-walled carbon nanotubes can be dispersed in the solvent, and the surfactant and dispersant can be dissolved in the solvent; (2) employing density gradient centrifugation to sort the highly dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes obtained in step (1). This method can effectively separate single-walled carbon nanotubes with different structural properties.

Abstract: A method by which silicon nanostructures may be selectively coated with molecules or biomolecules using an electrochemical process. This chemical process may be employed as a method for coating many different nanostructures within a circuit, each with a different molecular or biomolecular material. The density of devices within a circuit of devices that can be coated with different molecules is limited only by the ability to electronically address each device separately. This invention has applications toward the fabrication of molecular electronic circuitry and toward the fabrication of nanoelectronic molecular sensor arrays.

Abstract: A method by which silicon nanostructures may be selectively coated with molecules or biomolecules using an electrochemical process. This chemical process may be employed as a method for coating many different nanostructures within a circuit, each with a different molecular or biomolecular material. The density of devices within a circuit of devices that can be coated with different molecules is limited only by the ability to electronically address each device separately. This invention has applications toward the fabrication of molecular electronic circuitry and toward the fabrication of nanoelectronic molecular sensor arrays.