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Growth Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Single Crystal Substrates
Boston College
posted on 06/11/2009
This invention provides a method for growing carbon nanotubes on single crystal substrates. The method of producing a nanostructure material comprises coating a single crystal substrate with a catalyst film to form a catalyst coated substrate.
Single crystal magnesium oxide substrates were found to be very suitable for the growth of aligned double wall carbon nanotubes using ethylene and hydrogen gases.
Suggested Uses
• Sensors, interconnects, filters, probes, electrical and thermal transport, field emission and nanoelectronics
Advantages
• Combination of single crystal magnesium oxide with ethylene and hydrogen gases is a readily available and relatively inexpensive
• Novel, repeatable technique for growing CNTs that have a specific geometry, for example, the patterning of the catalyst and that are produced in high yield and large size
• Avoids the use of conductive paste, electroplating, and electrophoresis
File Number: 2005.018/ren
Other Information:
Guangyong Xiong, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Aligned Millimeter-Long Carbon Nanotubes Arrays Grown on Single Crystal Magnesia”, Carbon 44, 969 -973 (2006).
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Principal Investigator:
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Zhifeng Ren
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Catherine Ives
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