scholarly journals The Effect of Ni Catalyst on the Growth of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by PECVD Method

2015 ◽  
Vol 1107 ◽  
pp. 314-319
Author(s):  
Mai Woon Lee ◽  
Muhammad Aniq Shazni Mohammad Haniff ◽  
Au Shih Teh ◽  
Daniel C.S. Bien ◽  
Soo Kien Chen ◽  
...  

In this paper, the effect of nickel (Ni) catalyst on the growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was studied where the CNTs were vertically grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) method. The growth conditions were fixed at a temperature of 700°C with a pressure of 1000mTorr for 40 minutes with various thicknesses of sputtered Ni catalyst. Experimental results show that high density of CNTs was observed especially towards thicker catalyst layers where larger and taller nanotubes were formed. The growth rate increases by ~0.7 times with increasing catalyst thickness from 4nm to 10nm. The nucleation of the catalyst with various thicknesses was also studied as the absorption of the carbon feedstock is dependent on the initial size of the catalyst island. From the Raman results, we found that only slight variation in the intensity ratio of G-band over D-band as increasing catalyst thicknesses. The minor difference in G/D ratio indicates that the catalyst thickness does not significantly influence the quality of CNTs grown.

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 783-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saveria Santangelo ◽  
Giacomo Messina ◽  
Giuliana Faggio ◽  
Maurizio Lanza ◽  
Alessandro Pistone ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Dhiraj Kumar ◽  
Kalyan Kumar Singh

Laser machining of carbon fibre reinforced polymer composites is a challenging task due to a significant difference between physical and thermal properties of the constituent materials, i.e. polymer matrix and carbon fibres. This results in extended heat-affected zone (HAZ), taper kerf and poor surface finishing. This paper focuses on an investigation, attempting to minimise the divergence in the decomposition temperature of carbon fibres and epoxy resin by adding multi-walled carbon nanotubes in polymer matrix as a secondary reinforcement. High thermal conductivity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes increases the thermal diffusivity of polymer matrix, which in turn reduces the matrix recession. In addition, laser power and scan speed was also considered as an input parameter and their influence on output responses such as HAZ, taper angle and surface roughness has been studied. To analyse the effect of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on the resultant thermal damage, an innovative technique, i.e. scanning acoustic microscopy was used. This technique provides a ply-by-ply damage analysis. C-scans of the top and bottom surface of the machined holes in the composite were also carried out. Further, micrographs of the holes were taken to analyse the quality of the holes using field-emission scanning electron microscope. The obtained results indicated that HAZ, taper angle and surface roughness of holes decreased by ∼30%, ∼47% and ∼43%, respectively, with 1.5 wt% multi-walled carbon nanotubes doped carbon fibre reinforced polymer laminates, when compared with the results obtained from experiments with neat carbon fibre reinforced polymer composite laminates.


2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (S2) ◽  
pp. 428-429
Author(s):  
Paula P. Provencio ◽  
Michael P. Siegal ◽  
Donald L. Overmyer

Carbon nanotubes have previously been grown on Ni coated glass, aligned vertical to the substrate over a multi-centimeter square area1. Under vacuum, the aligned nanotubes were grown below 666° C (strain point of the best display glass) by plasma-enhanced hot filament, chemical vapor deposition. It was found, the size and alignment of the nanotubes could be varied by changing the dwell time and the thickness of the catalytic Ni layer by plasma etching. in more recent, ongoing studies, the size of carbon nanotubes is varied by changing the growth temperature and dwell time under acetylene/nitrogen atmosphere using chemical vapor deposition onto W and Ni coated Si.Multiwall carbon nanotube films are grown using a thermally-activated chemical vapor deposition process. Thin Ni catalyst layers are sputtered onto W-coated Si(100) and reduced in a 600°C CO anneal. Nanotubes then grow at temperatures ranging from 630 - 790°C in an acetylene/nitrogen mixture.


2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (S2) ◽  
pp. 304-305
Author(s):  
M Ellis ◽  
T Jutarosaga ◽  
S Smith ◽  
Y Wei ◽  
S Seraphin

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, August 3 – August 7, 2008


2013 ◽  
Vol 667 ◽  
pp. 534-537
Author(s):  
M.Z. Nuraini ◽  
S. Aishah ◽  
S.F. Nik ◽  
Mohamad Rusop

Fermented tapioca which is a new starting material was used as a carbon precursor. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were deposited on silicon wafer (Si) by Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition (TCVD). The gas flow of Argon (Ar) was constant at 70 bubbles per minute and 20 minutes of deposition time. Before the deposition process, silicon was coated with Nickel using spin coater. Various parameters such as amount of inoculums have been studied. Chemical functional groups of carbon nanotubes were characterized using FT-IR Spectroscopy. The FT-IR result shows peaks attributed to multi–walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) vibration modes.


2006 ◽  
Vol 320 ◽  
pp. 163-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koji Yamada ◽  
Kentaro Abe ◽  
Masafumi Mikami ◽  
Morihiro Saito ◽  
Jun Kuwano

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were synthesized from camphor by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method in a range of 750-900. The catalyst was fed in three ways: (a) a sputtered Fe-film on a quartz substrate (b) vaporized ferrocene in an Ar flow; (c) both of (a) and (b). In the case (c), highly pure, dense and aligned MWCNT arrays formed on the quartz substrate at 850, whereas nonaligned MWCNTs formed in the cases (a) and (b).


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