Perfecting the Carbon Nanotube Forest
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James HarperRobert Mifflin
June 7th, 2007Jacobs School of Engineering
University of California – San Diego
Advisors:Prof. Prab BandaruProf. SungHo JinProf. Frank Talke
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Introduction◦ Selecting the Area of Nanotechnology to Enhance
Why is this area important? Does it pass the Moral / Ethics Test?
◦ Background Growth and Chirality Separation Techniques
Analyses of Separation Techniques◦ Dielectrophoresis◦ Flow Fractionalization Analysis and Improvement◦ Pulsed dielectrophoresis
Creating Pure Lines of Carbon Nanotubes◦ Selection and Release◦ The Perfect Carbon Nanotube Forest
Conclusion
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Generating Pure Sets of CNTs on Demand
◦Why is this area important?
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Carbon nanotubes can be used to enhance materials and create new sensors that impact everyday life
Electrical arena Wires, Batteries and Capacitors, Flex displays
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Carbon nanotubes can be used to enhance materials and create new sensors that impact everyday life
Electrical arena ◦ Conductive plastics, adhesives
Structural Arena ◦ Adhesives, Flexible circuits, Composites
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Carbon nanotubes can be used to enhance materials and create new sensors that impact everyday life
Electrical arena ◦ Conductive plastics, adhesives
Structural Arena ◦ Adhesives, textiles, composites
Bio-molecule sensing
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◦Does it pass the Moral / Ethics Test?
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Growth and Chirality of Carbon Nanotubes◦ Formed from several processes, resulting in a sheet of
graphene in the form of a hollow continuous tube.
◦ Differences between SWCNT, MWCNT,M-SWCNT, S-SWCNT
SWCNT – Single Wall CNT
MWCNT – Multi-Wall CNT
M-SWCNT – Metallic SWCNT
S-SWCNT – Semiconductor SWCNT
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Unbundling Carbon Nanotubes◦ Use sonication and ultra-centrifugation to separate
hydrophobic clumps of CNTs◦ Buffer with a surfactant sodium dodecyl sulphate
(SDS)
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Unbundling Carbon Nanotubes◦ Use sonication and ultra-centrifugation to separate
hydrophobic clumps of CNTs◦ Buffer with a surfactant sodium dodecyl sulphate
(SDS) Purification / Sorting Techniques
◦ Ultra-centrifugation◦ Optical sorting◦ Fluid flow fractionalization ◦ Dielectrophoresis
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Purification / Sorting Techniques◦ Ultra-centrifugation
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Purification / Sorting Techniques◦ Optical sorting
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Purification / Sorting Techniques◦ Optical sorting
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Purification / Sorting Techniques◦ Fluid flow fractionalization
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Purification / Sorting Techniques◦ Dielectrophoresis
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Unbundling Carbon Nanotubes◦ Use sonication to separate clumps and ultra-centrifugation
Purification / Sorting Techniques◦ Ultra-centrifugation◦ Optical sorting◦ Fluid flow fractionalization ◦ Dielectrophoresis
Problem?◦ Each technique allows for partial separation of the desired
carbon nanotubes from the bulk solution – However ……
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There is an overlap of sorting parameters!◦ Use of one technique independently will not discriminate
nanotubes with overlapping parameters
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There is an overlap of sorting parameters!◦ And the number of parameters that can vary is large!
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Partial Solution?◦ Multiple techniques must be used for to obtain a rough
sort of the material.
Ultra-centrifugation Optical sorting Fluid flow fractionalization Dielectrophoresis
And the resulting subset will still have a mixture of different nanotubes - albeit a set with many overlapping attributes.
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Realize that absolute purity of nanotubes through top down or bottom up fabrication may not be achievable.
Recast the problem – what other system/industry has high variability – yet desires near exact to exact duplicates be used?
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Look to the Bio Labs –◦ Generating a clone murine line for laboratory study.
Maps to --- CNT – rough sort desired CNTs--- CNT – individual capture--- Check the Chirality – using Raman scattering and conduction properties--- Release the individual CNT
--- Clone the CNT
Bio ProcessSelect an species Isolate the individualSequence the DNA
Release the individual(into a controlled environment)
Clone the individual
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◦Can all of these steps be done?
◦ If so, perfect sorting may not be required.
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Introduction◦ Selecting the Area of Nanotechnology to Enhance
Why is this area important? Does it pass the Moral / Ethics Test?
◦ Background Growth and Chirality Separation Techniques
Analyses of Separation Techniques◦ Dielectrophoresis◦ Flow Fractionalization Analysis and Improvement◦ Pulsed dielectrophoresis
Creating Pure Lines of Carbon Nanotubes◦ Selection and Release◦ The Perfect Carbon Nanotube Forest
Conclusion
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Uncharged particle + non-uniform electric field = force◦ Caused by uneven charge distribution◦ Depends strongly on…
Medium’s and particles' electrical properties Particles' morphology Frequency of the electric field
More polarizable particles move toward stronger electric field
For CNTs,
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CNTs with dissimilar conductivitiesand morphologies develop differentterminal velocities within a fluid flow,as described by
Separation is most efficient when vT
of different sizes of CNTs is most
dissimilar.◦ Adjust friction factor f by changing orientation
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Three possible orientations◦ Parallel
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Orientation
Inverse of Friction Factor (s/kg) Differenc
e (s/kg)100 nm length
2 μm length
Perpendicular 4.5 × 105 51.3 × 105 46.8 × 105
Random 6.4 × 105 76.8 × 105 70.4 × 105
Parallel 8.9 × 105 103.0 × 105 94.1 × 105
Maximum difference attained with parallel orientation
34% larger difference than random orientation Significant?
May be difficult to implement in practice Possibly use dielectrophoretic force itself to orient
nanotubes parallel to flow
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Difference between Dielectrophoresis (DEP) and Pulsed Dielectrophoresis (PDEP)◦ DEP is typically set up for an asymmetrical field
with constant frequency. We would like to look at varying the duty cycle to try to separate CNT that have very closely overlapping properties.
◦ Example - Lets look at some cells
Distributed populations of spherical shell models of mammalian
cells. (Top Left) 10% variation across all three DEP parameters, radius, permittivity, and conductivity. (Top Right) Constant conductivity with varying permittivity and radius. (Lower Left) Constant radius. (Lower Right) Constant permittivity.
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Difference between Dielectrophoresis (DEP) and Pulsed Dielectrophoresis (PDEP)
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Constant Permittivity
Distributed populations of spherical shell models of mammalian
cells. (Top Left) 10% variation across all three DEP parameters, radius, permittivity, and conductivity. (Top Right) Constant conductivity with varying permittivity and radius. (Lower Left) Constant radius. (Lower Right) Constant permittivity.
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The equations
Complex Permittivity
Permittivity of CNT
Metallic = 2000 Media = 18.6
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E field between electrodes volts per meter
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Capture occurs due to Dielectrophoresis attracting the CNT dipoles. ◦ CNT lands on the probes and
causes the field to be modified◦ Thus self assembly/placement
Modify the probe surface with LBL deposited materialfor sticktion and later lift off
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Use Raman scattering and conduction parameters to analyze the CNTs
Electronic and mechanicallystringency wash cartridge.
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Decorate CNTs with bio-particles to ease later handling.
CNTs are then released asneeded from the storagecartridge.
Moved to cloning cell off chip
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Sonicated into seeds Embedded into an LBL deposited layer Used to grow Final CNTs
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Sorting of CNTs difficult, yet improvable◦ Flow fractionalization◦ Pulsed dielectrophoresis
Best solution: avoid problem of perfect sorting with capture and release of CNTs◦ The perfect carbon nanotube forest
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Pictures◦ [1,2] “The Application of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays in Electronics and Biosensors” by Dr. Jun Li, NASA
Ames Research Center, MS 229-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035
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