Macroscopic, neat, single-walled carbon nanotube fibers.
Well-aligned macroscopic fibers composed solely of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were produced by conventional spinning. Fuming sulfuric acid charges SWNTs and promotes their ordering into an aligned phase of individual mobile SWNTs surrounded by acid anions. This ordered dispersion was extruded via solution spinning into continuous lengths of macroscopic neat SWNT fibers. Such fibers possess interesting structural composition and physical properties.
Ericson
Lars M
LM
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
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