摘要:
Single walled carbon nanotubes are produced in a novel apparatus by the laser-induced ablation of moving carbon target. The laser used is of high average power and ultra-fast pulsing. According to various preferred embodiments, the laser produces an output above about 50 watts/cm2 at a repetition rate above about 15 MHz and exhibits a pulse duration below about 10 picoseconds. The carbon, carbon/catalyst target and the laser beam are moved relative to one another and a focused flow of “side pumped”, preheated inert gas is introduced near the point of ablation to minimize or eliminate interference by the ablated plume by removal of the plume and introduction of new target area for incidence with the laser beam. When the target is moved relative to the laser beam, rotational or translational movement may be imparted thereto, but rotation of the target is preferred.
摘要:
Methods for sensing and building sensors provide for adding nanotubes to a sensor to improve characteristics such as the Q-factor associated with the sensor. Mass loading and damping characteristics of micromachined quartz crystal resonators on which a thin film of debundled single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) has been deposited are disclosed. An absolute mass sensitivity of ˜100 fg was experimentally measured by monitoring the continuous desorption of gases from SWNT surfaces in a vacuum ambient.
摘要:
The present invention is directed towards a method of producing single wall carbon nanotubes which comprises providing a catalyst comprising an alumina support and a component selected from the group consisting of reduced Fe, reduced Fe/Mo, Fe oxide, and Fe/Mo oxide, and growing, in an inert atmosphere, single wall carbon nanotubes by passing a gas comprising methane over the catalyst at a temperature and for a time sufficient to grow single wall carbon nanotubes. The invention is also directed towards a single wall carbon nanotube produced by such a method. The invention is also directed towards a catalyst for producing SWNTs, wherein the catalyst comprises an alumina support and a component selected from the group consisting of reduced Fe, reduced Fe/Mo, Fe oxide, and Fe/Mo oxide.
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A hydrogen storage material includes a nano size material that can be formed in a multi-layered core/shell structure and/or in a nanotabular (or platelet) form.
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Carbon fiber/tubes are prepared by pyrolyzing a catalyst system that contains one or more diluents to facilitate control of the diameter of the formed carbon fiber/tube.
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A novel thermoelectric material in the form of a unit cell including a first reagent intercalated as a semiconducting layer into a metallic layered host and a method for producing the thermoelectric material are disclosed. The unit cell is characterized by a Seebeck coefficient S of 80-140 .mu.V/K.degree. and an electrical conductivity .sigma. of 10.sup.3 -10.sup.4 (.OMEGA.cm).sup.-1, as well as a figure of merit Z of about 2.times.10.sup.-3 K.sup.-1 at 100.degree. K.
摘要翻译:公开了一种单元电池形式的新型热电材料,其包括插入金属层状主体中的半导体层的第一试剂和用于制造热电材料的方法。 该单元的特征在于塞贝克系数S为80-140μV/ K DEG,电导率σ为103-104(OMEGA cm)-1,以及约2×10-3K-1的品质因数Z 在100°K。
摘要:
Methods for sensing and building sensors provide for adding nanotubes to a sensor to improve characteristics such as the Q-factor associated with the sensor. Mass loading and damping characteristics of micromachined quartz crystal resonators on which a thin film of debundled single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) has been deposited are disclosed. An absolute mass sensitivity of ˜100 fg was experimentally measured by monitoring the continuous desorption of gases from SWNT surfaces in a vacuum ambient.
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The present invention generally relates to methods and apparatus for the synthesis or preparation of boron-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes (B-SWCNTs). The invention provides a high yield, single step method for producing large quantities of continuous macroscopic carbon fiber from single-wall carbon nanotubes using inexpensive carbon feedstocks wherein the carbon nanotubes are produced by in situ boron substitutional doping. In one embodiment, the nanotubes disclosed are used, singularly or in multiples, in power transmission cables, in solar cells, in batteries, as antennas, as molecular electronics, as probes and manipulators, and in composites. It is another object of this invention to provide macroscopic carbon fiber made by such a method.
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Compounds consisting of two or more fullerenes (e.g., a C.sub.60 dimer) and a film or powder which includes covalently linked fullerene molecules. Also disclosed is a fullerene film or powder with gas molecules or atoms uniformly disposed therein, as well as a method of diffusing gas molecules or atoms into or through a film or powder made of pristine fullerene molecules.