Growth and deterministic assembly of single stranded carbon nanotube

The ability to control the shape, position, alignment, length and assembly of carbon nanotubes over large areas has become an essential but very difficult goal in the field of nanotechnology. Current assembly efforts for nanostructures (such as carbon nanotubes) are mostly based on the concept of planting seeds and growing them into nanostructures, which cannot integrate nanostructures to micro/macro structures deterministically in a long-range order. So to overcome the problem of assembly at nanoscale, this thesis investigates a new way of growth and assembly of nanostructures (carbon nanotube). This process is termed as nanopelleting, which refers to control length, alignment, handling and transportation of a nanostructure (carbon nanotube). Nanopelleting is a new concept to embed nanostructures into assemblable micro-blocks, and then have them individually transplanted, located and assembled. This method includes vertical growth of single strand carbon nanotubes, pellet casting, planarization, pellet separation, transplanting and bonding. A new CNT PECVD machine has been designed and built to custom fit to our specifications for vertically grown single strand CNTs.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Doddabasanagouda, Sunil

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Sang-Gook Kim.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35313

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/35313