DocumentCode
3214515
Title
Morphology control of rapid grown vertically aligned carbon nanotube forest for fiber spinning
Author
Iijima, Toru ; Oshima, Hirotaka ; Hayashi, Yasuhiro ; Suryavanshi, U.B. ; Hayashi, Ayako ; Tanemura, Masaya
Author_Institution
Dept. of Frontier Mater., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Nagoya, Japan
fYear
2010
fDate
14-16 Oct. 2010
Firstpage
404
Lastpage
405
Abstract
Morphology control of rapid grown vertically aligned carbon nanotube forest for fiber spinning is reported. Thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system at around 700°C was used with a catalyst of iron catalyst films deposited on thin alumina supporting layers. Acetylene gas diluted with hydrogen and nitrogen was used as a carbon source. The morphology of carbon nanotube was observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).
Keywords
carbon nanotubes; chemical vapour deposition; nanofabrication; scanning electron microscopy; transmission electron microscopy; C; CVD; SEM; TEM; acetylene gas; alumina supporting layers; carbon source; fiber spinning; hydrogen; iron catalyst films; morphology control; nitrogen; scanning electron microscopy; transmission electron microscopy; vertically aligned carbon nanotube;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Vacuum Electron Sources Conference and Nanocarbon (IVESC), 2010 8th International
Conference_Location
Nanjing
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-6645-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IVESC.2010.5644118
Filename
5644118
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