Effect of electric field on creep and stress-relaxation behavior of carbon nanotube forests

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (72) ◽  
pp. 67685-67692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piyush Jagtap ◽  
Amit Kumar ◽  
Praveen Kumar

Carbon nanotube forests (CNTFs) are porous ensembles of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, exhibiting excellent reversible compressibility and electric field tunable stress–strain, creep, and viscoelastic responses.

2007 ◽  
Vol 1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengchun Liu ◽  
Sang Hwui Lee ◽  
Navdeep Bajwa ◽  
Lijie Ci ◽  
Swastik Kar ◽  
...  

AbstractWe report on a method for direct measurement of site density of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Site density is an important parameter of vertically-aligned carbon nanotube forests for various applications. By freezing the CNT forests in a polymer matrix and exposing the CNT ends, we obtained the site density of vertically aligned multi-walled CNTs through SEM observation and particle counting. Site densities of multi-walled CNTs grown by two different CVD processes, ferrocene/xylene process and Fe-Al/ethylene process, were measured to be ∼10 tubes/Ým2 and ∼53 tubes/Ým2, respectively. The results of site density distributions indicate non-uniform growth of carbon nanotubes at the micrometer scale in both processes.


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1575-1579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Nick ◽  
Sandeep Yadav ◽  
Ravi Joshi ◽  
Christiane Thielemann ◽  
Jörg J Schneider

The growth of cortical neurons on three dimensional structures of spatially defined (structured) randomly oriented, as well as on vertically aligned, carbon nanotubes (CNT) is studied. Cortical neurons are attracted towards both types of CNT nano-architectures. For both, neurons form clusters in close vicinity to the CNT structures whereupon the randomly oriented CNTs are more closely colonised than the CNT pillars. Neurons develop communication paths via neurites on both nanoarchitectures. These neuron cells attach preferentially on the CNT sidewalls of the vertically aligned CNT architecture instead than onto the tips of the individual CNT pillars.


Nano Letters ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3261-3266 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lehman ◽  
Aric Sanders ◽  
Leonard Hanssen ◽  
Boris Wilthan ◽  
Jinan Zeng ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 910-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasantha R Mudimela ◽  
Mattia Scardamaglia ◽  
Oriol González-León ◽  
Nicolas Reckinger ◽  
Rony Snyders ◽  
...  

Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes of different lengths (150, 300, 500 µm) synthesized by thermal chemical vapor deposition and decorated with gold nanoparticles were investigated as gas sensitive materials for detecting nitrogen dioxide (NO2) at room temperature. Gold nanoparticles of about 6 nm in diameter were sputtered on the top surface of the carbon nanotube forests to enhance the sensitivity to the pollutant gas. We showed that the sensing response to nitrogen dioxide depends on the nanotube length. The optimum was found to be 300 µm for getting the higher response. When the background humidity level was changed from dry to 50% relative humidity, an increase in the response to NO2 was observed for all the sensors, regardless of the nanotube length.


Carbon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilson Merchan-Merchan ◽  
Alexei V. Saveliev ◽  
Lawrence A. Kennedy

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (23) ◽  
pp. 5245-5260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenbo Shi ◽  
Desiree L. Plata

Incorporate green chemistry principles into vertically aligned carbon nanotube production and leverage their properties to maximize environmental benefits.


RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (89) ◽  
pp. 48310-48316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan-Sun Kim ◽  
Gi-Ja Lee ◽  
Je-Hwang Ryu ◽  
KyuChang Park ◽  
Hun-Kuk Park

We evaluated the use of flexible biosensors based on Ni-coordinated, vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on a flexible graphite substrate (Ni/VCNTs/G) for the nonenzymatic electrochemical detection of glucose.


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