Ultrastrong, foldable, and highly conductive carbon nanotube film

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5457-5464

  Di, Jiangtao ^a,b   Hu, Dongmei ^a   Chen, Hongyuan ^a,b   Yong, Zhenzhong ^a   Chen, Minghai ^a   Feng, Zhihai ^a   Zhu, Yuntian ^c   Li, Qingwen ^a  

^a SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

alignment; bending; carbon nanotube; charge collector; film; tensile strength

Indexed keywords

BUCKY PAPER; CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; CARBON-BASED; CHARGE COLLECTORS; CHARGE/DISCHARGE; CNT FILMS; CONDUCTIVE CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITANCE; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; GRAPHITE FOILS; HIGH PACKING DENSITY; NANOTUBE ALIGNMENT; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; RATE STABILITY; STRUCTURE INTEGRITY; THEORETICAL VALUES; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ALIGNMENT; BENDING (FORMING); CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FILM PREPARATION; FILMS; GRAPHENE; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MAGNESIUM; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

CARBON FILMS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONFORMATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84862881079     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301321j     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Jorio, A.; Dresselhaus, G.; Dresselhaus, M. S. Carbon Nanotubes: Advanced Topics in the Synthesis, Structure Properties and Applications; Springer Verlag: Berlin, 2008; Vol. 111.
2. Geim, A. K. Graphene: Status and Prospects Science 2009, 324, 1530-1534
3. Chung, D. D. L. Flexible Graphite for Gasketing, Adsorption, Electromagnetic Interference Shielding, Vibration Damping, Electrochemical Applications, and Stress Sensing J. Mater. Eng. Perform. 2000, 9, 161-163
4. Dowell, M.; Howard, R. Tensile and Compressive Properties of Flexible Graphite Foils Carbon 1986, 24, 311-323
5. Leng, Y.; Gu, J.; Cao, W.; Zhang, T. Y. Influences of Density and Flake Size on the Mechanical Properties of Flexible Graphite Carbon 1998, 36, 875-881
6. Baughman, R. H.; Zakhidov, A. A.; de Heer, W. A. Carbon Nanotubes - the Route toward Applications Science 2002, 297, 787-792
7. Iijima, S.; Brabec, C.; Maiti, A.; Bernholc, J. Structural Flexibility of Carbon Nanotubes J. Chem. Phys. 1996, 104, 2089-2092
8. Cao, A.; Dickrell, P. L.; Sawyer, W. G.; Ghasemi-Nejhad, M. N.; Ajayan, P. M. Super-Compressible Foamlike Carbon Nanotube Films Science 2005, 310, 1307-1310
9. Yu, M.-F.; Lourie, O.; Dyer, M. J.; Moloni, K.; Kelly, T. F.; Ruoff, R. S. Strength and Breaking Mechanism of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes under Tensile Load Science 2000, 287, 637-640
10. Peng, B.; Locascio, M.; Zapol, P.; Li, S.; Mielke, S. L.; Schatz, G. C.; Espinosa, H. D. Measurements of near-Ultimate Strength for Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes and Irradiation-Induced Crosslinking Improvements Nat. Nanotechnol. 2008, 3, 626-631
11. Zhang, R.; Wen, Q.; Qian, W.; Su, D. S.; Zhang, Q.; Wei, F. Superstrong Ultralong Carbon Nanotubes for Mechanical Energy Storage Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 3387-3391
12. Yu, M. F.; Files, B. S.; Arepalli, S.; Ruoff, R. S. Tensile Loading of Ropes of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes and Their Mechanical Properties Phys. Rev. Lett. 2000, 84, 5552-5555
13. Javey, A.; Guo, J.; Wang, Q.; Lundstrom, M.; Dai, H. J. Ballistic Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors Nature 2003, 424, 654-657
14. Mingo, N.; Broido, D. Carbon Nanotube Ballistic Thermal Conductance and Its Limits Phys. Rev. Lett. 2005, 95, 96105
15. Liu, L.; Ma, W.; Zhang, Z. Macroscopic Carbon Nanotube Assemblies: Preparation, Properties, and Potential Applications Small 2011, 7, 1504-1520
16. Zhang, X. F.; Sreekumar, T. V.; Liu, T.; Kumar, S. Properties and Structure of Nitric Acid Oxidized Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Films J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 16435-16440
17. Baughman, R. H.; Cui, C.; Zakhidov, A. A.; Iqbal, Z.; Barisci, J. N.; Spinks, G. M.; Wallace, G. G.; Mazzoldi, A.; De Rossi, D.; Rinzler, A. G. et al. Carbon Nanotube Actuators Science 1999, 284, 1340-1344
18. Kumar, N. A.; Jeon, I. Y.; Sohn, G. J.; Jain, R.; Kumar, S.; Baek, J. B. Highly Conducting and Flexible Few-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Film ACS Nano 2011, 5, 2324-2331
19. Liu, J.; Rinzler, A. G.; Dai, H. J.; Hafner, J. H.; Bradley, R. K.; Boul, P. J.; Lu, A.; Iverson, T.; Shelimov, K.; Huffman, C. B. et al. Fullerene Pipes Science 1998, 280, 1253-1256
20. Wu, Z.; Chen, Z.; Du, X.; Logan, J. M.; Sippel, J.; Nikolou, M.; Kamaras, K.; Reynolds, J. R.; Tanner, D. B.; Hebard, A. F. et al. Transparent, Conductive Carbon Nanotube Films Science 2004, 305, 1273-1276
21. Endo, M.; Muramatsu, H.; Hayashi, T.; Kim, Y. A.; Terrones, M.; Dresselhaus, M. S. Nanotechnology: "Buckypaper" from Coaxial Nanotubes Nature 2005, 433, 476-476
22. Lee, S. W.; Kim, B. S.; Chen, S.; Shao-Horn, Y.; Hammond, P. T. Layer-by-Layer Assembly of All Carbon Nanotube Ultrathin Films for Electrochemical Applications J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 671-679
23. Liu, Q.; Fujigaya, T.; Cheng, H. M.; Nakashima, N. Free-Standing Highly Conductive Transparent Ultrathin Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 16581-16586
24. Jo, J. W.; Jung, J. W.; Lee, J. U.; Jo, W. H. Fabrication of Highly Conductive and Transparent Thin Films from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using a New Non-Ionic Surfactant Via Spin Coating ACS Nano 2010, 4, 5382-5388
25. Dan, B.; Irvin, G. C.; Pasquali, M. Continuous and Scalable Fabrication of Transparent Conducting Carbon Nanotube Films ACS Nano 2009, 3, 835-843
26. Nasibulin, A. G.; Kaskela, A.; Mustonen, K.; Anisimov, A. S.; Ruiz, V.; Kivisto, S.; Rackauskas, S.; Timmermans, M. Y.; Pudas, M.; Aitchison, B. et al. Multifunctional Free-Standing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films ACS Nano 2011, 5, 3214-3221
27. Ma, W. J.; Song, L.; Yang, R.; Zhang, T. H.; Zhao, Y. C.; Sun, L. F.; Ren, Y.; Liu, D. F.; Liu, L. F.; Shen, J. et al. Directly Synthesized Strong, Highly Conducting, Transparent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films Nano Lett. 2007, 7, 2307-2311
28. Cheng, H.; Li, F.; Sun, X.; Brown, S.; Pimenta, M.; Marucci, A.; Dresselhaus, G.; Dresselhaus, M. Bulk Morphology and Diameter Distribution of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized by Catalytic Decomposition of Hydrocarbons Chem. Phys. Lett. 1998, 289, 602-610
29. Zhu, H.; Xu, C.; Wu, D.; Wei, B.; Vajtai, R.; Ajayan, P. M. Direct Synthesis of Long Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Strands Science 2002, 296, 884
30. Liu, L.; Fan, S. Isotope Labeling of Carbon Nanotubes and Formation of 12c-13c Nanotube Junctions J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 11502-11503
31. Wang, D.; Song, P. C.; Liu, C. H.; Wu, W.; Fan, S. S. Highly Oriented Carbon Nanotube Papers Made of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Nanotechnology 2008, 19, 075609
32. Pint, C. L.; Xu, Y. Q.; Pasquali, M.; Hauge, R. H. Formation of Highly Dense Aligned Ribbons and Transparent Films of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Directly from Carpets ACS Nano 2008, 2, 1871-1878
33. Pint, C. L.; Xu, Y. Q.; Moghazy, S.; Cherukuri, T.; Alvarez, N. T.; Haroz, E. H.; Mahzooni, S.; Doorn, S. K.; Kono, J.; Pasquali, M. Dry Contact Transfer Printing of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Patterns and Characterization of Their Optical Properties for Diameter Distribution and Alignment ACS Nano 2010, 4, 1131-1145
34. Jiang, K. L.; Li, Q. Q.; Fan, S. S. Nanotechnology: Spinning Continuous Carbon Nanotube Yarns-Carbon Nanotubes Weave Their Way into a Range of Imaginative Macroscopic Applications Nature 2002, 419, 801-801
35. Zhang, M.; Fang, S.; Zakhidov, A. A.; Lee, S. B.; Aliev, A. E.; Williams, C. D.; Atkinson, K. R.; Baughman, R. H. Strong, Transparent, Multifunctional, Carbon Nanotube Sheets Science 2005, 309, 1215-1219
36. Jiang, K.; Wang, J.; Li, Q.; Liu, L.; Liu, C.; Fan, S. Superaligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays, Films, and Yarns: A Road to Applications Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 1154-1161
37. Zhang, M.; Atkinson, K. R.; Baughman, R. H. Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Yarns by Downsizing an Ancient Technology Science 2004, 306, 1358-1361
38. Zhang, X. F.; Li, Q. W.; Holesinger, T. G.; Arendt, P. N.; Huang, J. Y.; Kirven, P. D.; Clapp, T. G.; DePaula, R. F.; Liao, X. Z.; Zhao, Y. H. et al. Ultrastrong, Stiff, and Lightweight Carbon-Nanotube Fibers Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 4198-4201
39. Inoue, Y.; Suzuki, Y.; Minami, Y.; Muramatsu, J.; Shimamura, Y.; Suzuki, K.; Ghemes, A.; Okada, M.; Sakakibara, S.; Mimura, H. et al. Anisotropic Carbon Nanotube Papers Fabricated from Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Webs Carbon 2011, 49, 2437-2443
40. Li, Q. W.; Zhang, X. F.; DePaula, R. F.; Zheng, L. X.; Zhao, Y. H.; Stan, L.; Holesinger, T. G.; Arendt, P. N.; Peterson, D. E.; Zhu, Y. T. Sustained Growth of Ultralong Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Fiber Spinning Adv. Mater. 2006, 18, 3160-3163
41. Mizuno, K.; Ishii, J.; Kishida, H.; Hayamizu, Y.; Yasuda, S.; Futaba, D. N.; Yumura, M.; Hata, K. A Black Body Absorber from Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2009, 106, 6044-6047
42. Rao, A. M.; Jorio, A.; Pimenta, M. A.; Dantas, M. S. S.; Saito, R.; Dresselhaus, G.; Dresselhaus, M. S. Polarized Raman Study of Aligned Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Phys. Rev. Lett. 2000, 84, 1820-1823
43. Dettlaff-Weglikowska, U.; Skákalová, V.; Graupner, R.; Jhang, S. H.; Kim, B. H.; Lee, H. J.; Ley, L.; Park, Y. W.; Berber, S.; Tománek, D. Effect of Socl2 Treatment on Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Networks J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 5125-5131
44. Wang, S.; Liang, Z.; Wang, B.; Zhang, C. High-Strength and Multifunctional Macroscopic Fabric of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 1257-1261
45. Malik, S.; Rosner, H.; Hennrich, F.; Bottcher, A.; Kappes, M. M.; Beck, T.; Auhorn, M. Failure Mechanism of Free Standing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Films under Tensile Load Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2004, 6, 3540-3544
46. Xu, G. H.; Zhang, Q.; Zhou, W. P.; Huang, J. Q.; Wei, F. The Feasibility of Producing MWCNT Paper and Strong Mwcnt Film from VACNT Array Appl. Phys. A: Mater. 2008, 92, 531-539
47. Dikin, D. A.; Stankovich, S.; Zimney, E. J.; Piner, R. D.; Dommett, G. H.; Evmenenko, G.; Nguyen, S. T.; Ruoff, R. S. Preparation and Characterization of Graphene Oxide Paper Nature 2007, 448, 457-460
48. Park, S.; Lee, K. S.; Bozoklu, G.; Cai, W.; Nguyen, S. T.; Ruoff', R. S. Graphene Oxide Papers Modified by Divalent Ions-Enhancing Mechanical Properties Via Chemical Cross-Linking ACS Nano 2008, 2, 572-578
49. Chen, H.; Muller, M. B.; Gilmore, K. J.; Wallace, G. G.; Li, D. Mechanically Strong, Electrically Conductive, and Biocompatible Graphene Paper Adv. Mater. 2008, 20, 3557-3561
50. Borkowski, J. W. Process for Making High Strength Flexible Graphite Foil. U.S. patent 4102960, 1978.
51. Jia, J. J.; Zhao, J. N.; Xu, G.; Di, J. T.; Yong, Z. Z.; Tao, Y. Y.; Fang, C. O.; Zhang, Z. G.; Zhang, X. H.; Zheng, L. X. et al. A Comparison of the Mechanical Properties of Fibers Spun from Different Carbon Nanotubes Carbon 2011, 49, 1333-1339
52. Qian, D.; Liu, W. K.; Ruoff, R. S. Load Transfer Mechanism in Carbon Nanotube Ropes Compos. Sci. Technol. 2003, 63, 1561-1569
53. Qian, D.; Wagner, G. J.; Liu, W. K.; Yu, M. F.; Ruoff, R. S. Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes Appl. Mech. Rev. 2002, 55, 495
54. Berhan, L.; Yi, Y. B.; Sastry, A. M.; Munoz, E.; Selvidge, M.; Baughman, R. Mechanical Properties of Nanotube Sheets: Alterations in Joint Morphology and Achievable Moduli in Manufacturable Materials J. Appl. Phys. 2004, 95, 4335-4345
55. Peter Chen, I. W.; Liang, R.; Zhao, H.; Wang, B.; Zhang, C. Highly Conductive Carbon Nanotube Buckypapers with Improved Doping Stability Via Conjugational Cross-Linking Nanotechnology 2011, 22, 485708
56. Cheng, Q. F.; Bao, J. W.; Park, J.; Liang, Z. Y.; Zhang, C.; Wang, B. High Mechanical Performance Composite Conductor: Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Sheet/Bismaleimide Nanocomposites Adv. Funct. Mater. 2009, 19, 3219-3225
57. Shim, B. S.; Zhu, J.; Jan, E.; Critchley, K.; Ho, S. S.; Podsiadlo, P.; Sun, K.; Kotov, N. A. Multiparameter Structural Optimization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Composites: Toward Record Strength, Stiffness, and Toughness ACS Nano 2009, 3, 1711-1722
58. Liu, W.; Zhang, X. H.; Xu, G.; Bradford, P. D.; Wang, X.; Zhao, H. B.; Zhang, Y. Y.; Jia, Q. X.; Yuan, F. G.; Li, Q. W. et al. Producing Superior Composites by Winding Carbon Nanotubes onto a Mandrel under a Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Spray Carbon 2011, 49, 4786-4791
59. Di, J.; Yong, Z.; Yang, X.; Li, Q. Structural and Morphological Dependence of Carbon Nanotube Arrays on Catalyst Aggregation Appl. Surf. Sci. 2011, 258, 13-18
60. 2 Electrode Used in Aqueous Electrochemical Capacitor Chem. Mater. 2004, 16, 3184-3190
61. Bélanger, D.; Brousse, T.; Long, J. W. Manganese Oxides: Battery Materials Make the Leap to Electrochemical Capacitors Interface-Electrochem. Soc. 2008, 17, 49-52