Effect of Enhanced Thermal Stability of Alumina Support Layer on Growth of Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Application in Nanofiltration Membranes

In, Jung Bin; Cho, Kang Rae; Tran, Tung Xuan; Kim, Seok -Min; Wang, Yinmin; Grigoropoulos, Costas P.; Noy, Aleksandr; Fornasiero, Francesco

doi:10.1186/s11671-018-2585-3

Title: Effect of Enhanced Thermal Stability of Alumina Support Layer on Growth of Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Application in Nanofiltration Membranes

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^[1]; Cho, Kang Rae ^[2]; Tran, Tung Xuan ^[1]; Kim, Seok -Min ^[1]; Wang, Yinmin ^[3]; Grigoropoulos, Costas P. ^[4]; Noy, Aleksandr ^[5]; Fornasiero, Francesco ^[3]

Chung-Ang Univ., Seoul (Republic of Korea)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States)

Publication Date:: Thu Jun 07 00:00:00 EDT 2018

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1492315

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1491657; OSTI ID: 1512615

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-752864; LLNL-JRNL-741083
Journal ID: ISSN 1931-7573; ark:/13030/qt28k8m8zm

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nanoscale Research Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 13; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1931-7573

Publisher:: Springer

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Single-walled carbon nanotube; Catalyst; Alumina; CNT membrane

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                    In, Jung Bin, Cho, Kang Rae, Tran, Tung Xuan, Kim, Seok -Min, Wang, Yinmin, Grigoropoulos, Costas P., Noy, Aleksandr, and Fornasiero, Francesco. Effect of Enhanced Thermal Stability of Alumina Support Layer on Growth of Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Application in Nanofiltration Membranes.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    In, Jung Bin, Cho, Kang Rae, Tran, Tung Xuan, Kim, Seok -Min, Wang, Yinmin, Grigoropoulos, Costas P., Noy, Aleksandr, & Fornasiero, Francesco. Effect of Enhanced Thermal Stability of Alumina Support Layer on Growth of Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Application in Nanofiltration Membranes.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s11671-018-2585-3

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                    In, Jung Bin, Cho, Kang Rae, Tran, Tung Xuan, Kim, Seok -Min, Wang, Yinmin, Grigoropoulos, Costas P., Noy, Aleksandr, and Fornasiero, Francesco. Thu .  
"Effect of Enhanced Thermal Stability of Alumina Support Layer on Growth of Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Application in Nanofiltration Membranes".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s11671-018-2585-3.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1492315.

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  title        = {Effect of Enhanced Thermal Stability of Alumina Support Layer on Growth of Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Application in Nanofiltration Membranes},

  author       = {In, Jung Bin and Cho, Kang Rae and Tran, Tung Xuan and Kim, Seok -Min and Wang, Yinmin and Grigoropoulos, Costas P. and Noy, Aleksandr and Fornasiero, Francesco},

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Figure 1: a Schematic of the CVD system (GP gas purifier, MFC mass flow controller). b CVD process diagram describing the change in furnace temperature and gas combination with respect to process time

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