Journal article
Arbitrarily Shaped Fiber Assemblies from Spun Carbon Nanotube Gel Fibers
Advanced functional materials, v 17(15), pp 2918-2924
Oct 2007
Abstract
Experimental methods, apparatus, and practically useful theoretical analysis are provided for the coagulation‐based spinning of effectively unlimited lengths of carbon nanotube fibers having exceptional toughness and reasonably high strength. This spinning process fundamentally depends on the mechanical properties of intermediate gel state fibers, which we find are surprising elastic up to about 20 % strain and sufficiently strong for diverse processing methods. More specifically, we show that assemblies of these gel fibers can be used as intermediates for making nanotube sheets, large diameter fibers, and conformal coatings. When suitably processed, these composites (comprising many parallel solution‐spun nanotube fibers) have useful strength and extraordinary toughness.
We provide experimental methods, apparatus, and practically useful theoretical analysis for the coagulation‐based spinning of effectively unlimited lengths of carbon nanotube gel fibers having exceptional toughness and reasonably high strength. Assemblies of these gel fibers can be used as intermediates for making nanotube sheets, large diameter fibers, and conformal coatings.
Metrics
Details
- Title
- Arbitrarily Shaped Fiber Assemblies from Spun Carbon Nanotube Gel Fibers
- Creators
- J. M RazalJ. N ColemanE MuñozB LundY GogotsiH YeS CollinsA. B DaltonR. H Baughman
- Publication Details
- Advanced functional materials, v 17(15), pp 2918-2924
- Publisher
- WILEY‐VCH Verlag; Weinheim
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- Human Frontiers Science Programme Strategic Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology National Science Foundation (DMI‐0609115) Robert A. Welch Foundation (AT‐0029) Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (009741‐0050‐2006) Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Royal Society MEC and CSIC (2006 8 0I 060)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000250526300040
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-35548947666
- Other Identifier
- 991014969882204721
InCites Highlights
Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:
- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
- Chemistry, Physical
- Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
- Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
- Physics, Applied
- Physics, Condensed Matter