Large scale production of carbon nanotube arrays on the sphere surface from liquefied petroleum gas at low cost

Qiang Zhang; Jiaqi Huang; Fei Wei; Guanghui Xu; Yao Wang; Weizhong Qian; Dezheng Wang

doi:10.1007/s11434-007-0458-8

Large scale production of carbon nanotube arrays on the sphere surface from liquefied petroleum gas at low cost

Qiang Zhang, Jiaqi Huang, Fei Wei^*, Guanghui Xu, Yao Wang, Weizhong Qian, Dezheng Wang

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Tsinghua University

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Abstract

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), a cheap industrial material, is used as carbon source to produce carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays on ceramic spherical surface on a large scale in the floating catalyst process. The ceramic spheres provide huge surface area and good mobility, leading to the mass production of CNT arrays continuously. The arrays obtained from the surface are of good alignment, and the purity is as high as 97.5%. With the decrease of the growth temperature, CNTs in the array form with small-diameter of about 13 nm can be obtained. Therefore, with the industrial fuel as carbon source and the ceramic sphere as substrate, CNT arrays can easily be produced on large scale at low cost.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2896-2902
Number of pages	7
Journal	Chinese Science Bulletin
Volume	52
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-007-0458-8
Publication status	Published - Nov 2007
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Carbon nanotube arrays
Large scale
Liquefied petroleum gas
Production

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