High Frequency Carbon Nanostructures that Smell, Weight, Harvest and Handle

In this paper we present the state-of-the art of high frequency carbon nanostructure devices dedicated to sense, harvest and handle. However, we do not restrain our analysis only to high frequency applications, but provide a general overview of carbon nanostructures that sense various parameters, harvest or handle electric or electromagnetic energy, all these properties conferring them the status of smart materials. Numerous applications based on these smart materials are envisaged, but some of them are especially scrutinized in this paper, e.g. biological applications, wireless applications, and energy harvesting and generation.