Review of Carbon Nanotube Research and Development: Materials and Emerging Applications

In this study, we present our findings from analyzing data contained in approximately 265,000 journal and patent publications in the field of carbon nanotube (CNT)-related research spanning the last two decades (2003 to 2023). The purpose of this study is to identify and extract prominent trends and establish connections, such as those between materials and applications. Using a natural language processing (NLP)-based analysis, we have identified over 80 emerging concepts across three major categories (applications, materials, and properties) in the field of CNTs, which is presented in a "Trend Landscape" map. While early research efforts appeared to focus on synthesis techniques (including the now…