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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2004
Yukihiro Sugiyama, Gifu, JP;
Yasuhiro Oue, Ibaraki, JP;
Yukihiro Sugiyama, Gifu, JP;
Yasuhiro Oue, Ibaraki, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A technique of stably bonding a structure including a carbon nanotube with another structure is to be provided. Also, a nano-device that offers excellent performance and high production efficiency is to be provided. A polymer and a carbon nanotube are dispersed in a dispersion medium and on a filled liquid in a Langmuir trough, to obtain a carbon nanotube-based structure constituted of a carbon nanotube and the polymer wound around its rounded surface. The carbon nanotube-based structure is adhered to a substrate, and a ligand is immobilized on a side chain of the polymer. A receptor is immobilized on another carbon nanotube-based structure, and the both carbon nanotube-based structures are joined because of a specific interaction between the ligand and the receptor.