Mass Transport Through Carbon Nanotube–Polystyrene Bundles

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• 作者：Rongzhou Lin ; Tuan Tran
• 关键词：Carbon nanotubes ; nanotube bundle ; nanofluidics ; mass transport ; flow enhancement
• 刊名：Journal of Electronic Materials
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：45
• 期：5
• 页码：2490-2495
• 全文大小：1,026 KB
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• 作者单位：Rongzhou Lin (1)
  Tuan Tran (1)
  
  1. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue 50, 639798, Singapore, Singapore
  
• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Chemistry
  Optical and Electronic Materials
  Characterization and Evaluation Materials
  Electronics, Microelectronics and Instrumentation
  Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy
  
• 出版者：Springer Boston
• ISSN：1543-186X

文摘

Carbon nanotubes have been widely used as test channels to study nanofluidic transport, which has been found to have distinctive properties compared to transport of fluids in macroscopic channels. A long-standing challenge in the study of mass transport through carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is the determination of flow enhancement. Various experimental investigations have been conducted to measure the flow rate through CNTs, mainly based on either vertically aligned CNT membranes or individual CNTs. Here, we proposed an alternative approach that can be used to quantify the mass transport through CNTs. This is a simple method relying on the use of carbon nanotube–polystyrene bundles, which are made of CNTs pulled out from a vertically aligned CNT array and glued together by polystyrene. We experimentally showed by using fluorescent tagging that the composite bundles allowed measureable and selective mass transport through CNTs. This type of composite bundle may be useful in various CNT research areas as they are simple to fabricate, less likely to form macroscopic cracks, and offer a high density of CNT pores while maintaining the aligned morphology of CNTs.