Mechnano's AM Technology Integrates Discrete Carbon Nanotubes into AM Materials for Significant Materials Improvements
参考中译:Mechnano的AM技术将离散的碳纳米管集成到AM材料中,以实现重大的材料改进


          

刊名:Global SMT & Packaging
作者:BRYCE KEELER
刊号:736C0011
ISSN:1474-0893
出版年:2023
年卷期:2023, vol.23, no.5
页码:16-18
总页数:3
分类号:TB4
语种:eng
文摘:Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) are cylindrical structures of pure carbon with walls a single atom thick and, despite being 10,000 times smaller than human hair, CNTs have many unique properties, including: Harder than a diamond; 100 times stronger than steel; 1,000 times the current capacity of copper. When CNTs and their properties were discovered in 1991, and considerations made for how materials would react with increasing number of these miracle tubes inside them, they were hailed as the next material science revolution that would change materials and the products they made forever. The unimaginable would become possible: paper-thin antiballistic vests, super-light airframes, and even space elevators would all become feasible with the incredible properties of CNTs. However, even though CNTs really do have these and many more amazing properties, there were no sensational, CNT-loaded materials released in 1991 - or since. And there is a very good reason for that. The main challenge with CNTs is when they are manufactured, they agglomerate (or clump) into balls of millions and sometimes billions of tubes. And despite there being so many CNTs in these clumps, this agglomeration proves their downfall. Clumped CNTs not only prevent their unique properties from being transferred into a receiving system, but they also end up being detrimental to the receiving system.
参考中译:碳纳米管(CNT)是由纯碳组成的圆柱形结构,壁只有一个原子厚,尽管碳纳米管比人的头发小一万倍,但它具有许多独特的特性,包括:比钻石更硬;比钢强100倍;比铜的电流容量高1000倍。1991年,当碳纳米管及其特性被发现时,人们考虑到材料将如何与越来越多的这种神奇的管子发生反应,它们被誉为下一次材料科学革命,将永远改变材料和它们制造的产品。不可想象的事情将成为可能:纸一样薄的防弹背心,超轻的机身,甚至太空电梯都将成为可能,因为碳纳米管令人难以置信的特性。然而,尽管碳纳米管确实具有这些和更多令人惊叹的特性,但在1991年或之后,没有任何轰动的、负载碳纳米管的材料问世。这是有很好的理由的。碳纳米管面临的主要挑战是,当它们被制造出来时,它们会凝聚(或聚集)成数百万甚至数十亿个管子的球状。尽管这些块状物中有如此多的碳纳米管,但这种聚集证明了它们的衰落。成团的碳纳米管不仅阻止其独特的性质被转移到接收系统中,而且最终也对接收系统有害。