Low temperature synthesis of carbon nanofibres on carbon fibre matrices

Carbon nanotube grafted carbon fibres: A study of wetting and fibre fragmentation

“…A number of studies have reported the fabrication of CNT-grafted fibres using both direct growth of CNTs onto fibres [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] and chemical reactions between modified fibres and CNTs [20]. Among those methods, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) appears to be an efficient way to produce CNT-grafting, with controllable size [16,21] and orientation [14].…”

“…Among those methods, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) appears to be an efficient way to produce CNT-grafting, with controllable size [16,21] and orientation [14]. Some positive results [15,18,19] have been reported on the improvement of critical mechanical properties of hierarchical composites with CNTgrafted fibres, including increased interlaminar shear strength [18], delamination resistance [15,19], and hardness [15].…”

Morphology study of carbon nanospecies grown on carbon fibers by thermal CVD technique

“…have been used for the growth of nanotubes. Carbon fibers as a substrate for the growth of nanotubes have also been used [14][15][16]. In order to achieve benefits of CNTs superior properties their selective and aligned growth is highly desirable for several applications [17,18].…”

Design and Demonstration of Carbon Nanotubes(CNTs)-Based Field Emission Device

“…Previous efforts have been concentrated on controlling the growth process to produce arrays of aligned CNT on patterned substrates and have been successful in some aspects [18~21] . At the same time, various low temperature chemical vapor deposition (CVD) techniques are being studied to achieve low threshold field emission of electrons at a high emission current density [22] [23] . Vertically aligned CNTs have been synthesized by plasma-enhanced CVD [1] .…”