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PROCESS IMPROVES USEFULNESS OF CARBON NANOTUBES FOR BATTERY APPLICATIONS

By Scott Jenkins | May 1, 2019

https://www.chemengonline.com/process-improves-usefulness-cnts-battery-applications

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been touted as game-changing nanomaterials in a wide variety of areas, but their actual commercial success has been less than expected thus far. To a large extent, the difficulty has centered around the tendency of CNTs to agglomerate and entangle, which limits their ability to provide the expected mechanical and electrical properties.

Now, a process developed by Black Diamond Structures (BDS; Austin, Tex.; www.blackdiamond-structures.com) offers a way to disperse the clumped CNTs so their favorable properties can be exploited in real-world applications. The process involves both chemical and physical manipulation of commercially available CNTs, such that the agglomerations separate and remain dispersed enough to be used in electrodes for lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries.

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