期刊
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
卷 420, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.129869
关键词
Aerosol CVD reactor; Single-walled carbon nanotubes; Residence time; Transparent conductive films; Boudouard reaction
资金
- Russian Science Foundation [207310256]
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation [FZSR-2020-0007, 075032020097/1]
- Russian Science Foundation [20-73-10256] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
The study focused on the impact of residence time on the growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes in aerosol CVD process, showing that the nucleation stage of nanotubes is controlled by diameter distribution rather than residence time. It was also observed a correlation between carbon nanotube length and residence time, and increasing residence time can effectively decrease the equivalent sheet resistance.
We examine an effect of residence time on the growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in an aerosol (floating catalyst) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process using CO as a carbon source and ferrocene as a catalyst precursor. The key feature of aerosol CVD reactors, namely stabilization of fine nanoparticles by an extreme dilution, limits the method for catalyst evolution studies. We show an approach to examine the role of the residence time while maintaining all the processes preceding the nanotube growth (catalyst formation, nanotube nucleation). Using the diameter distribution of nanotubes as a fingerprint of the SWCNT nucleation stage, we have proven the latter to be unaffected by changes in the residence time. Using SEM observations, we have revealed a quite intuitive but inspiring correlation between the carbon nanotube length and residence time. We have also found a decrease in the SWCNT yield caused by the drop in the aerosol concentration, which could be attributed to the gas-phase losses as well as the shift in the catalyst activation degree. Nevertheless, the trends observed allowed us to reach a tenfold decrease in an equivalent sheet resistance (sheet resistance of a film with 90% transmittance at 550 nm) by a threefold increase in the residence time at optimal CO2 concentration. SWCNT films with the equivalent sheet resistance as low as 245 Omega/square and 51 Omega/square(for pristine and doped carbon nanotubes, correspondingly) ensure the promising future of the proposed strategy for optimization of both aerosol CVD reactors and SWCNT-based films for optoelectronic applications.
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