Continuous Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes
Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs), sometimes called forests or carpets, are a promising material due to their unique physical and scale-dependent physical properties [1-3]. Continuous production of VACNTs is required for large-scale applications in electronic devices, fuel cells and struc...
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| author | Guzman de Villoria, Roberto Steiner III, Stephen Alan Hart, Anastasios John Wardle, Brian L. |
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| description | Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs), sometimes called forests or carpets, are a promising material due to their unique physical and scale-dependent physical properties [1-3]. Continuous production of VACNTs is required for large-scale applications in electronic devices, fuel cells and structural composite materials [4] among others. Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) is the only available technique to produce large areas of VACNTs, and most of the studies done for this technique are done for stationary growth in batch CVD processing [5-7]. Recently, it has been demonstrated that there is no significant differences between the VACNTs grown at different velocities up to 1.1 mm/s in terms of quality, morphology and length using a CVD process in a custom cold wall continuous-feed reactor [8]. Here, a controlled process to synthesize aligned CNTs in a continuous manner is discussed. Uniform growth is achieved using different substrates including alumina fibers in bundle form and silicon wafers. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/875602022-10-01T08:44:10Z Continuous Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Guzman de Villoria, Roberto Steiner III, Stephen Alan Hart, Anastasios John Wardle, Brian L. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Wardle, Brian L. Guzman de Villoria, Roberto Steiner III, Stephen Alan Wardle, Brian L. Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs), sometimes called forests or carpets, are a promising material due to their unique physical and scale-dependent physical properties [1-3]. Continuous production of VACNTs is required for large-scale applications in electronic devices, fuel cells and structural composite materials [4] among others. Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) is the only available technique to produce large areas of VACNTs, and most of the studies done for this technique are done for stationary growth in batch CVD processing [5-7]. Recently, it has been demonstrated that there is no significant differences between the VACNTs grown at different velocities up to 1.1 mm/s in terms of quality, morphology and length using a CVD process in a custom cold wall continuous-feed reactor [8]. Here, a controlled process to synthesize aligned CNTs in a continuous manner is discussed. Uniform growth is achieved using different substrates including alumina fibers in bundle form and silicon wafers. Airbus Industrie Boeing Company Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica Lockheed Martin Saab (Firm) Spirit AeroSystems (Firm) Textron, Inc. Composite Systems Technology (Firm) Hexcel (Firm) NECST Consortium 2014-05-28T20:39:44Z 2014-05-28T20:39:44Z 2011-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87560 Guzman de Villoria, R., S.A. Steiner, A.J. Hart, and B.L. Wardle. "Continuous Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes." ICCM18: The 18th International Conference on Composite Materials 21 Aug 2011-26 Aug 2011, Jeju International Convention Center, Jeju Island, South Korea. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3530-5819 en_US http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/www/people/sallyc/necst/conferences.shtml Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Composite Materials, ICCM18, 2011 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Prof. Wardle via Barbara Williams |
| spellingShingle | Guzman de Villoria, Roberto Steiner III, Stephen Alan Hart, Anastasios John Wardle, Brian L. Continuous Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes |
| title | Continuous Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes |
| title_full | Continuous Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes |
| title_fullStr | Continuous Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Continuous Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes |
| title_short | Continuous Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes |
| title_sort | continuous growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes |
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