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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanotechnology Volume 2012, Article ID 819281, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/819281 Research Article Fabrication of Aligned-Carbon-Nanotube-Composite Paper with High and Anisotropic Conductivity Yuki Fujitsuka and Takahide Oya Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Tokiwadai 79-5, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Takahide Oya, t-oya@ynu.ac.jp Received 18 May 2012; Accepted 1 July 2012 Academic Editor: Magnus Willander Copyright © 2012 Y. Fujitsuka and T. Oya. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A functional carbon-nanotube (CNT)-composite paper is described in which the CNTs are aligned. This “aligned-CNT composite paper” is a flexible composite material that has CNT functionality (e.g., electrical conductivity) despite being a paper. An advanced fabrication method was developed to overcome the problem of previous CNT-composite papers, that is, reduced conductivity due to random CNT alignment. Aligning the CNTs by using an alternating current (AC) field was hypothesized to increase the electrical conductivity and give the paper an anisotropic characteristic. Experimental results showed that a nonionic surfactant was not suitable as a CNT dispersant for fabricating aligned-CNT composite paper and that catechin with its six-membered rings and hydrophilic groups was suitable. Observation by scanning electron microscopy of samples prepared using catechin showed that the CNTs were aligned in the direction of the AC field on the paper fibers. Measurement of the electric conductivity showed th