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SCIENCE
Volume 310, Issue 5753, Pages 1480-1483Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120385
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We demonstrate reversible wetting and fitting of open single-watt carbon nanotubes with mercury by means of electrocapillary pressure originating from the application of a potential across an individual nanotube in contact with a mercury drop. Wetting improves the conductance in both metallic and semiconducting nanotube probes by decreasing contact resistance and forming a mercury nanowire inside the nanotube. Molecular dynamics simulations corroborate the electrocapillary-driven filling process and provide estimates for the imbibition speed and electrocapillary pressure.
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