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Thermal Processing of Carbon Nanotubes
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Johnson, Aaron A
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Year and Degree
2014, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering and Applied Science: Mechanical Engineering.
Abstract
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) show promise as the fundamental constituents of macroscale engineering materials due to their outstanding intrinsic properties. In some CNT synthesis processes, defects in the CNT molecules and impurities in the bulk material are present. If left unaddressed, these issues may compromise the multi-functional properties of the macroscale material. In the current study, methods to explore the nature of CNTs at high temperatures are addressed with the purpose of removing defects and impurities from the CNT materials. One such method uses a furnace to explore the behavior of the material up to 2800 Celsius, the other employs DC Joule heating in a vacuum chamber to explore the sublimation of CNT walls. The techniques described herein are developed with the intention of providing scalable heat treatment processes that can be integrated into macroscale CNT material manufacturing processes.
Committee
Kumar Vemaganti, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
David Mast, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Mark Schulz, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Vesselin Shanov, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
86 p.
Subject Headings
Engineering
Keywords
carbon nanotube
;
thermal
;
anneal
;
raman
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Johnson, A. A. (2014).
Thermal Processing of Carbon Nanotubes
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1399629659
APA Style (7th edition)
Johnson, Aaron.
Thermal Processing of Carbon Nanotubes.
2014. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1399629659.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Johnson, Aaron. "Thermal Processing of Carbon Nanotubes." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1399629659
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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