Turning refuse plastic into multi-walled carbon nanotube forest
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- Title
- Turning refuse plastic into multi-walled carbon nanotube forest
- Authors
- Eugene Oh; Jaegeun Lee; Seung-Ho Jung; Seungho Cho; Hye-Jin Kim; Sung-Hyun Lee; Lee, KH; Kyong-Hwa Song; Chi-Hoon Choi; Do Suck Han
- Date Issued
- 2012-04
- Publisher
- IOPSCIENCE
- Abstract
- A novel and effective method was devised for synthesizing a vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forest on a substrate using waste plastic obtained from commercially available water bottles. The advantages of the proposed method are the speed of processing and the use of waste as a raw material. A mechanism for the CNT growth was also proposed. The growth rate of the CNT forest was similar to 2.5 mu mmin(-1). Transmission electron microscopy images indicated that the outer diameters of the CNTs were 20-30 nm on average. The intensity ratio of the G and D Raman bands was 1.27 for the vertically aligned CNT forest. The Raman spectrum showed that the wall graphitization of the CNTs, synthesized via the proposed method was slightly higher than that of commercially available multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). We expect that the proposed method can be easily adapted to the disposal of other refuse materials and applied to MWCNT production industries.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/12870
- DOI
- 10.1088/1468-6996/13/2/025004
- ISSN
- 1468-6996
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, vol. 13, no. 2, 2012-04
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