Carbon nanotubes and related nanomaterials: critical advances and challenges for synthesis toward mainstream commercial applications

R Rao, CL Pint, AE Islam, RS Weatherup, S Hofmann… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Advances in the synthesis and scalable manufacturing of single-walled carbon nanotubes
(SWCNTs) remain critical to realizing many important commercial applications. Here we …

Carbon nanotube membranes–strategies and challenges towards scalable manufacturing and practical separation applications

AO Rashed, A Merenda, T Kondo, M Lima… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon Nanotube (CNT) membranes were shown to offer great potential for separation
applications due to their attractive physicochemical, mechanical, thermal and electrical …

Synthesis of N-deficient gC3N4/epoxy composite coating for enhanced photocatalytic corrosion resistance and water purification

F Guo, L Li, Y Shi, W Shi, X Yang - Journal of Materials Science, 2023 - Springer
Vessels inevitably suffer from hull corrosion and encounter contaminated seawater during
their service, which is imperative to find a way to both resist corrosion and effectively purify …

Rapid production of carbon nanotubes: a review on advancement in growth control and morphology manipulations of flame synthesis

N Hamzah, MFM Yasin, MZM Yusop, A Saat… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon nanotube synthesis using flame has enormous potential for large scale carbon
nanotubes production. Carbon-rich and autothermal conditions within the flame environment …

Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes: Production and applications for environmental sustainability

W Shi, DL Plata - Green chemistry, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon nanomaterials play an essential role in resolving the increasingly urgent energy and
environmental crises. A unique type of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), vertically aligned CNTs …

Thermal boundary resistance and thermal rectification in VACNT arrays integrated with SnZn alloys

M Zhu, H Jiang, A Zhao, B Chen, ZK Ng, D Yang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermal rectification (TR) phenomena in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been previously
foreseen through theoretical predictions; however, its experimental realization in bulk CNT …

Oxygen-promoted catalyst sintering influences number density, alignment, and wall number of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

W Shi, J Li, ES Polsen, CR Oliver, Y Zhao, ER Meshot… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
A lack of synthetic control and reproducibility during vertically aligned carbon nanotube
(CNT) synthesis has stifled many promising applications of organic nanomaterials. Oxygen …

High-yield growth kinetics and spatial mapping of single-walled carbon nanotube forests at wafer scale

ER Meshot, SJ Park, SF Buchsbaum, ML Jue… - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
Emerging commercial applications of vertically aligned, single-walled carbon nanotube
(SWCNT)“forests” require synthesis that minimizes nanotube diameter while maximizing …

Highly consistent atmospheric pressure synthesis of carbon nanotube forests by mitigation of moisture transients

J Li, M Bedewy, AO White, ES Polsen… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Consistent synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) using laboratory-scale methods is
essential to the development of commercial applications, particularly with respect to the …

High-purity helical carbon nanotubes by trace-water-assisted chemical vapor deposition: Large-scale synthesis and growth mechanism

F Meng, Y Wang, Q Wang, X Xu, M Jiang, X Zhou, P He… - Nano Research, 2018 - Springer
Helical carbon nanotubes (HCNTs) are highly desirable due to their unique geometrical
elegance and inherent physical properties; however, high-efficiency synthesis of high-purity …