In situ small angle X-ray scattering investigation of the thermal expansion and related structural information of carbon nanotube composites

Ludovic Dumee; Aaron Thornton; Kallista Sears; Juerg Schuetz; Niall Finn; Steven Spoljaric; Robert Shanks; Chris Skourtis; Mikel Duke; Stephen Gray

doi:10.1016/j.pnsc.2012.11.012

In situ small angle X-ray scattering investigation of the thermal expansion and related structural information of carbon nanotube composites

Ludovic Dumee^*, Aaron Thornton, Kallista Sears, Juerg Schuetz, Niall Finn, Steven Spoljaric, Robert Shanks, Chris Skourtis, Mikel Duke, Stephen Gray

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Abstract

In-situ thermal expansion tests on a series of carbon nanotube bucky-paper composites were performed with direct heating within a synchrotron SAXS source. The impact of the samples density and morphology as well as the chemistry and degree of decoration of the carbon nanotubes on the scattering patterns were investigated and correlated to the materials macro-properties. The results demonstrate that simple densification techniques, such as acetone dipping or gold electroless deposition, could reduce greatly the displacements of the carbon nanotubes within the structure and lead to more thermally stable material. (c) 2012 Chinese Materials Research Society. Production and hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	675-685
Number of pages	11
Journal	Progress in Natural Science: Materials International
Volume	22
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnsc.2012.11.012
Publication status	Published - Dec 2012
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

The authors thank Dr. Nigel Kirby and Dr. Stephen Mudie, scientists on the SAXS beam-line at the Australian Synchrotron, for their help and advice over the scope of this work. The support of the Australian Synchrotron given through the grant number AS103/SAXS/CSIRO-proposal 2874 was also highly appreciated. They acknowledge Dr. Stephen Hawkins and Ms Chi Huynh (CSIRO) for growing and providing the CNTs used over the scope of this research, Dr. Paolo Falcaro and Dr. Anita Hill (CSIRO) for fruitful discussion and help on the use of the Linkam stage and Dr. Leonora Velleman for her help with gold plating.

Keywords

Carbon nanotube composites
Thermal expansion bucky-paper
Small angle X-ray scattering
Carbon nanotube densification
LASER FLASH TECHNIQUE
BUCKY-PAPER MEMBRANES
QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION
TRANSPORT-PROPERTIES
NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS
GOLD NANOPARTICLES
POLYMER MATRIX
CONDUCTIVITY
DISPERSION
ORIENTATION

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Dumee, L., Thornton, A., Sears, K., Schuetz, J., Finn, N., Spoljaric, S., Shanks, R., Skourtis, C., Duke, M., & Gray, S. (2012). In situ small angle X-ray scattering investigation of the thermal expansion and related structural information of carbon nanotube composites. Progress in Natural Science: Materials International, 22(6), 675-685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnsc.2012.11.012

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