
Industrial Applications of Carbon Nanotubes
- 1st Edition - October 8, 2016
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Huisheng Peng, Qingwen Li, Tao Chen
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 1 4 8 1 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 1 5 3 1 - 6
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Request a sales quoteIndustrial Applications of Carbon Nanotubes covers the current applications of carbon nanotubes in various industry sectors, from the military to visual display products, and energy harvesting and storage. It also assesses the opportunities and challenges for increased commercialization and manufacturing of carbon nanotubes in the years ahead.
Real-life case studies illustrate how carbon nanotubes are used in each industry sector covered, providing a valuable resource for scientists and engineers who are involved and/or interested in carbon nanotubes in both academia and industry. The book serves as a comprehensive guide to the varied uses of carbon nanotubes for specialists in many related fields, including chemistry, physics, biology, and textiles.
- Explains how carbon nanotubes can be used to improve the efficiency and performance of industrial products
- Includes real-life case studies to illustrate how carbon nanotubes have been successfully employed
- Explores how carbon nanotubes could be mass-manufactured in the future, and outlines the challenges that need to be overcome
Materials scientists, engineers, physicists and chemists
Chapter 1. Controllable Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Controllable Synthesis of Individual SWNTs on Substrates
- 1.3. Synthesis of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays
Chapter 2. Structure and Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Geometric Structure and Symmetry of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
- 2.3. Electronic Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
- 2.4. Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
- 2.5. Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
- 2.6. Summary and Outlook
Chapter 3. Carbon Nanotubes for Defect Monitoring in Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Utilization of CNTs for Monitoring Structural Defects in FRPs
- 3.3. Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 4. Carbon Nanotubes for Displaying
- 4.1. Brief Introduction About Display Technologies
- 4.2. CNT in FED
- 4.3. CNT in LCD
- 4.4. CNT in OLED
- 4.5. CNT in Other Kinds of Display
- 4.6. Summary and Outlook
Chapter 5. Carbon Nanotubes for Sensing Applications
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Biosensors
- 5.3. Gas Sensors
- 5.4. Strain and Pressure Sensors
- 5.5. Flow Sensors
- 5.6. Mass Sensors
- 5.7. pH Sensors
- 5.8. Summary and Outlook
Chapter 6. Stimuli-Responsive Materials From Carbon Nanotubes
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Actuators From Carbon Nanotubes
- 6.3. Chromic Materials From CNTs
- 6.4. Summary and Outlook
Chapter 7. Wearable Carbon Nanotube Devices for Sensing
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Wearable CNT Sensors for Health Care
- 7.3. Wearable CNT Sensors for Motion Detection
- 7.4. Wearable CNT Sensors for Environment Prober
- 7.5. Challenge and Perspectives
Chapter 8. Use of Carbon Nanotubes in Third-Generation Solar Cells
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Carbon Nanotubes
- 8.3. Transparent Conducting Electrodes
- 8.4. Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
- 8.5. CNTs in Organophotovoltaic Solar Cells
- 8.6. Carbon Nanotube/Silicon or Nanotube/Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
- 8.7. Summary and Outlook
Chapter 9. Application of Carbon Nanotubes in Lithium-Ion Batteries
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Mechanism of Lithium Ion Intercalation and Adsorption in CNTs
- 9.3. SWCNTs and MWCNTs as Anode for LIBs
- 9.4. CNTs With Different Morphologies as Anode for LIBs
- 9.5. CNT-Based Composite Electrodes
- 9.6. CNTs as Conductive Additives
- 9.7. Summary and Outlook
Chapter 10. Carbon Nanotubes for Electrochemical Capacitors
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Architecture Dependence of CNTs for Capacitance
- 10.3. Supercapacitors Based on Aligned CNTs
- 10.4. High-Performance CNT Hybrids for Capacitance
- 10.5. Summary and Outlook
Chapter 11. Carbon Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes
- 11.3. Carbon Nanotubes for Delivery Systems
- 11.4. Carbon Nanotubes for Therapy
- 11.5. Carbon Nanotubes in Tissue Engineering
- 11.6. Carbon Nanotubes for Biosensing
- 11.7. Carbon Nanotubes for Bioimaging
- 11.8. Summary and Outlook
Chapter 12. Carbon Nanotube Fibers for Wearable Devices
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Preparation and Properties of Carbon Nanotube Fibers
- 12.3. Carbon Nanotube Fiber for Wearable Energy Conversion Devices
- 12.4. Carbon Nanotube Fiber for Wearable Energy Storage Devices
- 12.5. Carbon Nanotube Fiber for Wearable Integrated Device of Energy Conversion and Storage
- 12.6. Conclusion
Chapter 13. Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes and Their Applications
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. In Situ Alignment Control
- 13.3. Spinnable CNT Forests
- 13.4. Applications of Aligned CNTs
- 13.5. Summary and Outlook
Chapter 14. Safety of Carbon Nanotubes
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. Potential Exposure of Carbon Nanotubes
- 14.3. Biodistribution of Carbon Nanotubes
- 14.4. Transmembrane Transportation of Carbon Nanotubes
- 14.5. Biodegradation of Carbon Nanotubes
- 14.6. Toxic Effects of Carbon Nanotubes
- 14.7. Factors Determining CNT Toxicity
- 14.8. Summary and Perspectives
Chapter 15. Challenge and Opportunities of Carbon Nanotubes
- 15.1. Challenges and Opportunities in the Synthesis and Processing of CNTs
- 15.2. Challenges and Opportunities in the Application of CNTs
- 15.3. Extended Applications of CNTs With Incorporation of Graphene
- 15.4. Perspective
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 8, 2016
- No. of pages (Hardback): 508
- No. of pages (eBook): 508
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323414814
- eBook ISBN: 9780323415316
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