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Feedstock diffusion and decomposition in aligned carbon nanotube arrays / Rong Xiang in Journal of heat transfer, Vol. 134 N° 5 (Mai 2012) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of heat transfer > Vol. 134 N° 5 (Mai 2012) . - 04 p. Titre : Feedstock diffusion and decomposition in aligned carbon nanotube arrays Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Rong Xiang, Auteur ; Erik Einarsson, Auteur ; Junichiro Shiomi, Auteur Année de publication : 2012 Article en page(s) : 04 p. Note générale : heat transfer Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : carbon  nanotube  (CNT);  feedstock  diffusion;  thermal  decomposition;  growth  mechanism Index. décimale : 536 Chaleur. Thermodynamique Résumé : Feedstock diffusion and decomposition in the root growth of aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays is discussed. A nondimensional modulus is proposed to differentiate catalyst poisoning controlled growth deceleration from one which is diffusion controlled. It is found that, at present, aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) arrays are usually free of feedstock diffusion resistance. However, for single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) arrays, since the intertube distance is much smaller than the mean free path of carbon source (ethanol here), high diffusion resistance in some currently available samples is significantly limiting the growth rate. The method presented here is also able to predict the critical lengths in different chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes from which CNT arrays begin to meet this diffusion limit, as well as the possible solutions to this diffusion caused growth deceleration. The diffusion of carbon source inside of an array becomes more important when we found ethanol undergoes severe thermal decomposition at the reaction temperature. This means, in a typical alcohol CVD, hydrocarbons and radicals decomposed from ethanol may collide and react with the outer walls of SWNTs before reaching catalyst particles. When flow rate is low and ethanol is thoroughly decomposed, the produced SWNTs contain more soot structures than the SWNTs obtained at higher ethanol flow rate. Understanding the mass transport and reaction inside a SWNT array is helpful to synthesize longer and cleaner SWNTs. DEWEY : 536 ISSN : 0022-1481 En ligne : http://asmedl.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JHTRAO000134000005 [...] [article] Feedstock diffusion and decomposition in aligned carbon nanotube arrays [texte imprimé] / Rong Xiang, Auteur ; Erik Einarsson, Auteur ; Junichiro Shiomi, Auteur . - 2012 . - 04 p. heat transfer Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of heat transfer > Vol. 134 N° 5 (Mai 2012) . - 04 p. Mots-clés : carbon  nanotube  (CNT);  feedstock  diffusion;  thermal  decomposition;  growth  mechanism Index. décimale : 536 Chaleur. Thermodynamique Résumé : Feedstock diffusion and decomposition in the root growth of aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays is discussed. A nondimensional modulus is proposed to differentiate catalyst poisoning controlled growth deceleration from one which is diffusion controlled. It is found that, at present, aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) arrays are usually free of feedstock diffusion resistance. However, for single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) arrays, since the intertube distance is much smaller than the mean free path of carbon source (ethanol here), high diffusion resistance in some currently available samples is significantly limiting the growth rate. The method presented here is also able to predict the critical lengths in different chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes from which CNT arrays begin to meet this diffusion limit, as well as the possible solutions to this diffusion caused growth deceleration. The diffusion of carbon source inside of an array becomes more important when we found ethanol undergoes severe thermal decomposition at the reaction temperature. This means, in a typical alcohol CVD, hydrocarbons and radicals decomposed from ethanol may collide and react with the outer walls of SWNTs before reaching catalyst particles. When flow rate is low and ethanol is thoroughly decomposed, the produced SWNTs contain more soot structures than the SWNTs obtained at higher ethanol flow rate. Understanding the mass transport and reaction inside a SWNT array is helpful to synthesize longer and cleaner SWNTs. DEWEY : 536 ISSN : 0022-1481 En ligne : http://asmedl.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JHTRAO000134000005 [...]