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Radial Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes via Dead‐End Filtration

Rust, Christian ; Schill, Elias ; Garrity, Oisín ; Spari, Manuel ; Li, Han ; Bacher, Andreas ; Guttmann, Markus ; Reich, Stephanie ; Flavel, Benjamin S. (2023)
Radial Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes via Dead‐End Filtration.
In: Small : nano micro, 2023, 19 (19)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00024309
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Radial Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes via Dead‐End Filtration
Language: English
Date: 4 August 2023
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2023
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Journal or Publication Title: Small : nano micro
Volume of the journal: 19
Issue Number: 19
Collation: 9 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00024309
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Origin: Secondary publication DeepGreen
Abstract:

Dead‐end filtration is a facile method to globally align single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in large area films with a 2D order parameter, S2D, approaching unity. Uniaxial alignment has been achieved using pristine and hot‐embossed membranes but more sophisticated geometries have yet to be investigated. In this work, three different patterns with radial symmetry and an area of 3.8 cm² are created. Two of these patterns are replicated by the filtered SWCNTs and S2D values of ≈0.85 are obtained. Each of the radially aligned SWCNT films is characterized by scanning cross‐polarized microscopy in reflectance and laser imaging in transmittance with linear, radial, and azimuthal polarized light fields. The former is used to define a novel indicator akin to the 2D order parameter using Malu's law, yielding 0.82 for the respective film. The films are then transferred to a flexible printed circuit board and terminal two‐probe electrical measurements are conducted to explore the potential of those new alignment geometries.

Uncontrolled Keywords: 1D crystals, hot‐embossing, membranes, optical limiters, polarizers, terahertz spectroscopy, thin films
Identification Number: 2207684
Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-243094
Classification DDC: 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics
600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 600 Technology
Divisions: 11 Department of Materials and Earth Sciences > Material Science > Molecular Nanostructures
Date Deposited: 04 Aug 2023 12:22
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2023 07:47
SWORD Depositor: Deep Green
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/24309
PPN: 512231850
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