Carbon Nanotubes and Related Nanomaterials: Critical Advances and Challenges for Synthesis toward Mainstream Commercial Applications

Rahul Rao^{1

2}, Cary L Pint³, Ahmad E Islam^{1

2}, Robert S Weatherup^{4

5}, Stephan Hofmann⁶, Eric R Meshot⁷, Fanqi Wu⁸, Chongwu Zhou⁸, Nicholas Dee⁹, Placidus B Amama¹⁰, Jennifer Carpena-Nuñez^{1

2}, Wenbo Shi¹¹, Desiree L Plata¹², Evgeni S Penev¹³, Boris I Yakobson¹³, Perla B Balbuena¹⁴, Christophe Bichara¹⁵, Don N Futaba¹⁶, Suguru Noda¹⁷, Homin Shin¹⁸, Keun Su Kim¹⁸, Benoit Simard¹⁸, Francesca Mirri¹³, Matteo Pasquali¹³, Francesco Fornasiero⁷, Esko I Kauppinen¹⁹, Michael Arnold²⁰, Baratunde A Cola²¹, Pavel Nikolaev^{1

2}, Sivaram Arepalli¹³, Hui-Ming Cheng^{22

23}, Dmitri N Zakharov²⁴, Eric A Stach²⁵, Jin Zhang²⁶, Fei Wei²⁷, Mauricio Terrones²⁸, David B Geohegan²⁹, Benji Maruyama¹, Shigeo Maruyama³⁰, Yan Li²⁶, W Wade Adams¹³, A John Hart⁹

Affiliations

¹ Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory , Wright Patterson Air Force Base , Dayton , Ohio 45433 , United States.
² UES Inc. , Dayton , Ohio 45433 , United States.
³ Department of Mechanical Engineering , Vanderbilt University , Nashville , Tennessee 37235 United States.
⁴ School of Chemistry , University of Manchester , Oxford Road , Manchester M13 9PL , U.K.
⁵ University of Manchester at Harwell, Diamond Light Source, Didcot , Oxfordshire OX11 0DE , U.K.
⁶ Department of Engineering , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0FA , U.K.
⁷ Physical and Life Sciences Directorate , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , Livermore , California 94550 United States.
⁸ Ming-Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California 90089 , United States.
⁹ Department of Mechanical Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.
¹⁰ Tim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering , Kansas State University , Manhattan , Kansas 66506 , United States.
¹¹ Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States.
¹² Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.
¹³ Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States.
¹⁴ Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry , Texas A&M University , College Station , Texas 77843 , United States.
¹⁵ Aix-Marseille University and CNRS , CINaM UMR 7325 , 13288 Marseille , France.
¹⁶ Nanotube Research Center , National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Tsukuba 305-8565 , Japan.
¹⁷ Department of Applied Chemistry and Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering , Waseda University , 3-4-1 Okubo , Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555 , Japan.
¹⁸ Security and Disruptive Technologies Research Centre, Emerging Technologies Division , National Research Council Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0R6 , Canada.
¹⁹ Department of Applied Physics , Aalto University School of Science , P.O. Box 15100 , FI-00076 Espoo , Finland.
²⁰ Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison , Wisconsin 53706 , United States.
²¹ George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , Georgia 30332 , United States.
²² Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute , Tsinghua University , Shenzhen 518055 , China.
²³ Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science , Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shenyang 110016 , China.
²⁴ Center for Functional Nanomaterials , Brookhaven National Laboratory , Upton , New York 11973 , United States.
²⁵ Department of Materials Science and Engineering , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19104 , United States.
²⁶ College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , China.
²⁷ Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , China.
²⁸ Department of Physics and Center for Two-Dimensional and Layered Materials , The Pennsylvania State University , University Park , Pennsylvania 16802 , United States.
²⁹ Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge , Tennessee 37831 , United States.
³⁰ Department of Mechanical Engineering , The University of Tokyo , 7-3-1 Hongo , Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo 113-8656 , Japan.

PMID: 30516055
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b06511

Carbon Nanotubes and Related Nanomaterials: Critical Advances and Challenges for Synthesis toward Mainstream Commercial Applications

Rahul Rao et al. ACS Nano. 2018.

. 2018 Dec 26;12(12):11756-11784.

doi: 10.1021/acsnano.8b06511. Epub 2018 Dec 5.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory , Wright Patterson Air Force Base , Dayton , Ohio 45433 , United States.
² UES Inc. , Dayton , Ohio 45433 , United States.
³ Department of Mechanical Engineering , Vanderbilt University , Nashville , Tennessee 37235 United States.
⁴ School of Chemistry , University of Manchester , Oxford Road , Manchester M13 9PL , U.K.
⁵ University of Manchester at Harwell, Diamond Light Source, Didcot , Oxfordshire OX11 0DE , U.K.
⁶ Department of Engineering , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0FA , U.K.
⁷ Physical and Life Sciences Directorate , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , Livermore , California 94550 United States.
⁸ Ming-Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California 90089 , United States.
⁹ Department of Mechanical Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.
¹⁰ Tim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering , Kansas State University , Manhattan , Kansas 66506 , United States.
¹¹ Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States.
¹² Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.
¹³ Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States.
¹⁴ Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry , Texas A&M University , College Station , Texas 77843 , United States.
¹⁵ Aix-Marseille University and CNRS , CINaM UMR 7325 , 13288 Marseille , France.
¹⁶ Nanotube Research Center , National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Tsukuba 305-8565 , Japan.
¹⁷ Department of Applied Chemistry and Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering , Waseda University , 3-4-1 Okubo , Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555 , Japan.
¹⁸ Security and Disruptive Technologies Research Centre, Emerging Technologies Division , National Research Council Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0R6 , Canada.
¹⁹ Department of Applied Physics , Aalto University School of Science , P.O. Box 15100 , FI-00076 Espoo , Finland.
²⁰ Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison , Wisconsin 53706 , United States.
²¹ George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , Georgia 30332 , United States.
²² Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute , Tsinghua University , Shenzhen 518055 , China.
²³ Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science , Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shenyang 110016 , China.
²⁴ Center for Functional Nanomaterials , Brookhaven National Laboratory , Upton , New York 11973 , United States.
²⁵ Department of Materials Science and Engineering , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19104 , United States.
²⁶ College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , China.
²⁷ Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , China.
²⁸ Department of Physics and Center for Two-Dimensional and Layered Materials , The Pennsylvania State University , University Park , Pennsylvania 16802 , United States.
²⁹ Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge , Tennessee 37831 , United States.
³⁰ Department of Mechanical Engineering , The University of Tokyo , 7-3-1 Hongo , Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo 113-8656 , Japan.

PMID: 30516055
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b06511

Abstract

Advances in the synthesis and scalable manufacturing of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) remain critical to realizing many important commercial applications. Here we review recent breakthroughs in the synthesis of SWCNTs and highlight key ongoing research areas and challenges. A few key applications that capitalize on the properties of SWCNTs are also reviewed with respect to the recent synthesis breakthroughs and ways in which synthesis science can enable advances in these applications. While the primary focus of this review is on the science framework of SWCNT growth, we draw connections to mechanisms underlying the synthesis of other 1D and 2D materials such as boron nitride nanotubes and graphene.

Keywords: 2D materials; CVD; boron nitride nanotubes; carbon nanotubes; chirality control; graphene; helicity; synthesis.

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