A Preliminary Study on the Effect of Macro Cavities Formation on Properties of Carbon Nanotube Bucky-Paper Composites
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Dumee, Ludovic, Sears, Kallista, Schutz, Jurg, Finn, Niall, Duke, Mikel 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3383-0006 and Gray, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0002-8748-2748
(2011)
A Preliminary Study on the Effect of Macro Cavities Formation on Properties of Carbon Nanotube Bucky-Paper Composites.
Materials, 4 (3).
pp. 553-561.
ISSN 1996-1944
Abstract
In this study, we focus on processing and characterizing composite material structures made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and reproducibly engineering macro-pores inside their structure. Highly porous bucky-papers were fabricated from pure carbon nanotubes by dispersing and stabilizing large 1 μm polystyrene beads within a carbon nanotube suspension. The polystyrene beads, homogeneously dispersed across the thickness of the bucky-papers, were then either dissolved or carbonized to generate macro cavities of different shape and properties. The impact of adding these macro cavities on the porosity, specific surface area and Young’s modulus was investigated and some benefits of the macro cavities will be demonstrated.
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| Additional Information | This article belongs to the Special Issue Porous Materials 2011 |
| Item type | Article |
| URI | https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/9030 |
| DOI | 10.3390/ma4030553 |
| Official URL | http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/4/3/553/pdf |
| Subjects | Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > Institute for Sustainability and Innovation (ISI) Historical > FOR Classification > 0904 Chemical Engineering Historical > SEO Classification > 9004 Water and Waste Services |
| Keywords | ResPubID23351, carbon nanotubes, CNTs, polystyrene beads, bucky-papers, porosity |
| Citations in Scopus | 15 - View on Scopus |
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