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Carbon nanotubes are nothing but the allotropes of carbon having small scale nanometers. The physical, thermal and chemical properties make it special for a wide array of applications. When we discuss single walled carbon nanotubes applications, it is highly tensile strength, electrically conductive and it has the capability to work in a higher temperature as well.

Carbon nanotubes application have made greater breakthroughs, and it has enabled the concept of nano technology to become one of the most sought after technologies and in fact, it has a greater impact on a wide array of applications like medicine, defense, energy, construction, and electronics.

Most of the single-walled carbon nanotubes have diameter quite close to one nanometer with a length which can vary maximum up to million times longer. The structure of these nanotubes can be easily conceptualized through wrapping one atomic layer of graphene into cylindrical structure.

SWCNTs are the vital variety of the carbon nanotubes since they readily exhibit electrical properties which are not shared with multi walled carbon nanotubes. In specific, their bandwidth may range from 0 to 2eV. Additionally, their electrical conductivity can show either their semi-conducting or metallic behavior. On the other hand, multi-walled carbon nanotubes are considered as zero gap metals.

The single walled carbon nanotubes are considered to be an ideal candidate for the purpose of miniaturizing the electronics which goes beyond the micro electromechanical scale and it is widely used in electronics. Electrical wires and single-walled carbon nanotubes also considered to be the building blocks of the systems. This brings to increased number of single-walled carbon nanotubes uses.

Listed below are some of the potential applications of SWCNTs-

Additives in polymers
Catalysts
Energy conversion
Sensors
Drug delivery
Super capacitor
Lithium battery anodes
Hydrogen storage capacity.