- 기능화에 의한 단일벽 탄소나노튜브 정제 및 페이퍼 제조와 전계방출 특성 연구
- ㆍ 저자명
- 곽정춘,이승환,이한성,이내성,Goak. Jeung-Choon,Lee. Seung-Hwan,Lee. Han-Sung,Lee. Nae-Sung
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 전기전자재료학회논문지
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2008년|21권 5호|pp.402-410 (9 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국전기전자재료학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) were currently produced together with some contaminants such as a metallic catalyst, amorphous carbon, and graphitic nanoparticles, which should be sometimes purified for their applications. This study aimed to develop efficient, scalable purification processes but less harmful to SWCNTs. We designed three-step purification processes: acidic treatment, surface functionalization and soxhlet extraction, and heat treatment. During the soxhlet extraction using tetrahydrofuran, specifically, carbon impurities could be easily expelled through a glass thimble filter without any significant loss of CNTs. Finally, SWCNTs were left as a bulky paper on the filter through membrane filtration. Vertically aligned SWCNTs on one side of bulky paper were well developed in a speparation from the filter paper, which were formed by being sucked through the filter pores during the pressurized filtration. The bucky paper showed a very high peak current density of field emission up to $200;mA/cm^2$ and uniform field emission images on phosphor, which seems very promising to be applied to vacuum microelectronics such as microwave power amplifiers and x-ray sources.