TY - JOUR
T1 - Fluidized-bed production of 0.3 mm-long single-wall carbon nanotubes at 28% carbon yield with 0.1 mass% catalyst impurities using ethylene and carbon dioxide
AU - Li, Mochen
AU - Hachiya, Soichiro
AU - Chen, Zhongming
AU - Osawa, Toshio
AU - Sugime, Hisashi
AU - Noda, Suguru
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ( JP16H06368 ) and the Encouragement Fund for Research from the Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering ( BA080Z00300 ). The authors would like to thank T. Gotoh at the Materials Characterization Central Laboratory, Waseda University, for the TEM and XPS analysis and K. Miyoshi for the XRF measurements.
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© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - To produce carbon nanotubes (CNTs) practically, a high carbon source concentration and high carbon yield are essential. By feeding moderately active ethylene at 10–20 vol% with mildly oxidative carbon dioxide at 1 vol%, submillimeter-long single-wall CNT (SWCNT) arrays were synthesized via fluidized-bed chemical vapor deposition using an Fe/AlOx catalyst sputtered on ceramic beads. SWCNTs with an average diameter of 2.9 nm, long length (0.3 mm), low catalyst impurity (0.1 mass%), and high specific surface area (1178 m2/g) were obtained at a high carbon yield of 28%. This study thus introduces a route for more efficient and cleaner production of long and pure SWCNTs.
AB - To produce carbon nanotubes (CNTs) practically, a high carbon source concentration and high carbon yield are essential. By feeding moderately active ethylene at 10–20 vol% with mildly oxidative carbon dioxide at 1 vol%, submillimeter-long single-wall CNT (SWCNT) arrays were synthesized via fluidized-bed chemical vapor deposition using an Fe/AlOx catalyst sputtered on ceramic beads. SWCNTs with an average diameter of 2.9 nm, long length (0.3 mm), low catalyst impurity (0.1 mass%), and high specific surface area (1178 m2/g) were obtained at a high carbon yield of 28%. This study thus introduces a route for more efficient and cleaner production of long and pure SWCNTs.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.carbon.2021.05.035
DO - 10.1016/j.carbon.2021.05.035
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107309232
SN - 0008-6223
VL - 182
SP - 23
EP - 31
JO - Carbon
JF - Carbon
ER -