Fabrication of Carbon Nanotubes from Recycled Plastic Bags

This book puts forward a catalyst-free CVD approach for fabricating CNTs with totally controlled properties (e.g. geometry shape chemical composition surface chemistry etc.) by using nanoporous templates with well-defined chemistry and geometry from recycled plastic bags. As a result of its simplicity versatility scalability and cost-competitive fabrication process this approach is envisaged for producing CNTs featuring standardized properties which are required for a broad range of applications (e.g. separations drug delivery etc.). To develop this CVD approach the optimal conditions for the fabrication of catalyst-free CNTs were determined by varying such parameters as temperature reaction path length absence or presence of catalyst type of nanoporous template (i.e. nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA) or titania nanotubes (TNTs)) and type of carbon source.