Method of producing carbon nanostructure

a carbon nanotube and carbon nanotube technology, applied in the direction of catalyst activation/preparation, physical/chemical process catalysts, metal/metal-oxide/metal-hydroxide catalysts, etc., can solve the problem of difficult control of the shape of the catalyst particle, the inability to easily generate and the inability to produce carbon nanotubes with a large fiber length. problems, to achieve the effect of producing stably, forming efficien

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-03-12
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC IND LTD
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This approach enables the stable production of carbon nanostructures with even shapes and high purity, reducing production costs and increasing efficiency by controlling the growth direction and suppressing impurity generation.

Problems solved by technology

In addition, generated carbon nanotubes have large variations in diameters, and it is difficult to stably produce even carbon nanotubes.
Since it is difficult to control a shape of a catalyst particle when the catalyst particle is formed by a chemical method such as heat decomposition, variations in shapes of catalyst particles themselves are generated.
In addition, a carbon nanotube having a large fiber length cannot be easily generated using the catalyst particle.

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[0079](1) Making of Catalyst Base

[0080]In this example, a catalyst base was made by a method indicated in FIG. 1. Composite material 13 (FIG. 1(A)), which was obtained by inserting an Fe (iron) rod as catalyst material 11 having an outside diameter of 40 mm into an Ag (silver) pipe as non-catalyst material 12 having an outside diameter of 60 mm and an inside diameter of 40 mm, was subjected to wiredrawing with drawing dice 14 until an outside diameter thereof became 1.2 mm to obtain a wire 1 (FIG. 1(B)). Wire 1 was cut at every length of 1 m and bundled together to fill an Ag pipe as non-catalyst material 15 having an outside diameter of 60 mm and an inside diameter of 40 mm, while spacers of Ag were used to fill gaps to avoid generation of a cavity, to form composite material 16 (FIG. 1(C)). Composite material 16 was passed through drawing dice 14 for wiredrawing until a diameter thereof became 1.2 mm to obtain a wire 2 (FIG. 1(D)). The step of obtaining wire 2 from wire 1 was repe...

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[0088](1) Making of Catalyst Base

[0089]In an Ag (silver) pipe having an outside diameter of 60 mm and an inside diameter of 50 mm, an Fe (iron) pipe having an outside diameter of 50 mm and an inside diameter of 45 mm was inserted, ard an Ag rod having an outside diameter of 45 mm was further inserted therein. A composite metal material obtained was subjected to wiredrawing with a drawing dice until an outside diameter thereof became 1.2 mm to obtain wire 1. Wire 1 was cut at every length of 1 m and bundled together to fill an Ag pipe having an outside diameter of 60 mm and an inside diameter of 40 mm, while spacers of Ag were used to fill gaps to avoid generation of a cavity, and the Ag pipe was subjected to wiredrawing with the drawing dice until a diameter thereof became 1.2 mm to obtain wire 2. The step of obtaining wire 2 from wire 1 was repeated and, finally, an aggregate having a diameter of 30 mm was obtained which was formed with a bundle of a plurality of catalyst structure...

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[0095](1) Making of Catalyst Base

[0096]In this example, a catalyst base was made by a method shown in FIG. 2. That is, while rotating an Ag rod as non-catalyst material 201 having an outside diameter of 40 mm, Fe and Ag were concurrently deposited on a periphery of the Ag rod from deposition sources 202 and 203 (FIG. 2(A)) to form composite material 206 in a spiral shape having respective 10 layers of Fe as catalyst materials 204 each having a thickness of 1 μm and Ag layers as non-catalyst materials 205 each having a thickness of 5 μm (FIG. 2(B)). An Ag layer as non-catalyst material 207 was further formed to make an outside diameter of a periphery of a resulting composite material 208 become 60 mm (FIG. 2(C)).

[0097]Composite material 208 obtained was passed through drawing dice 209 for wiredrawing until an outside diameter thereof became 1.2 mm to obtain wire 1 (FIG. 2(D)). Wire 1 was cut at every length of 1 m and bundled together to fill an Ag pipe as non-catalyst material 210 h...

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Abstract

A method of producing a carbon nanostructure is provided which can increase evenness of a shape and a purity of the carbon nanostructure and can reduce a production cost. In a method of producing a carbon nanostructure, a carbon crystal is grown by vapor phase epitaxy from a crystal growth surface of a catalyst base including a catalyst material, and the catalyst base is formed by diameter-reduction processing. The catalyst base is preferably formed as an aggregate including an arrangement of a plurality of catalyst structures each formed with a non-catalyst material, a material not having a substantial catalytic function for growth of the carbon crystal, formed on at least a portion of a side surface of the catalyst material of a columnar shape having the crystal growth surface as a top surface. In addition, a non-catalyst material is preferably formed on at least a portion of a side surface of the aggregate, and the catalyst structures preferably have variations of at most CV 10% in surface areas of the catalyst material on the crystal growth surface.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a method of producing a carbon nanostructure which enables a carbon nanostructure having a more even shape to be produced stably and at a high purity, and which can also reduce a production cost.BACKGROUND ART[0002]A carbon nanotube, which is formed with carbon atoms arranged in a tubular shape having a diameter of a nanometer level, has been receiving considerable attention in recent years as a carbon-based highly functional material having advantages such as high conductivity and mechanical strength. As one method of generating the carbon nanotube, a thermal decomposition method has been devised, in which thermal decomposition of a material gas such as an alcohol-based or hydrocarbon-based gas is performed in a heating furnace using a catalyst particle having a diameter of a nanometer level to grow a carbon crystal on the catalyst particle to form the carbon nanotube. The thermal decomposition method includes a method in which ...

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Patent Type & AuthorityPatents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C23C16/00B01J35/00B01J23/745C01B31/02
CPCB82Y30/00B82Y40/00B21C37/047B21C1/003B01J23/686B01J23/89B01J23/8906B01J23/8913B01J23/892B01J37/0009C01B32/162
InventorHIKATA, TAKESHI
OwnerSUMITOMO ELECTRIC IND LTD