Chemically interconnected light-weight 3D-carbon nanotube solid network

Ozden, Sehmus; Tsafack, Thierry; Owuor, Peter S.; Li, Yilun; Jalilov, Almaz S.; Vajtai, Robert; Tiwary, Chandra S.; Lou, Jun; Tour, James M.; Mohite, Aditya D.; Ajayan, Pulickel M.

doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2017.03.086

Title: Chemically interconnected light-weight 3D-carbon nanotube solid network

Journal Article · Fri Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Carbon

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2017.03.086· OSTI ID:1352384

^[1]; Tsafack, Thierry ^[2]; Owuor, Peter S. ^[2]; Li, Yilun ^[3]; Jalilov, Almaz S. ^[4]; Vajtai, Robert ^[2]; Tiwary, Chandra S. ^[2]; Lou, Jun ^[2]; Tour, James M. ^[5]; Mohite, Aditya D. ^[1]; Ajayan, Pulickel M. ^[2]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Materials Physics and Applications Division
Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran (Saudi Arabia). Dept. of Chemistry
Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and NanoEngineering and Dept. of Chemistry

Owing to the weak physical interactions such as van der Waals and π-π interactions, which hold nanotubes together in carbon nanotube (CNT) bulk structures, the tubes can easily slide on each other. In creating covalent interconnection between individual carbon nanotube (CNT) structures we saw remarkable improvements in the properties of their three-dimensional (3D) bulk structures. The creation of such nanoengineered 3D solid structures with improved properties and low-density remains one of the fundamental challenges in real-world applications. We also report the scalable synthesis of low-density 3D macroscopic structure made of covalently interconnected nanotubes using free-radical polymerization method after functionalized CNTs with allylamine monomers. The resulted interconnected highly porous solid structure exhibits higher mechanical properties, larger surface area and greater porosity than non-crosslinked nanotube structures. To gain further insights into the deformation mechanisms of nanotubes, fully atomistic reactive molecular dynamics simulations are used. Here we demonstrate one such utility in CO₂ uptake, whose interconnected solid structure performed better than non-interconnected structures.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1352384

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1439539

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-21894

Journal Information:: Carbon, Vol. 119, Issue C; ISSN 0008-6223

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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