Nanocarbon materials

CVD grown carbon nanotubes:

Average diameter 12-20 nm, surface area 250-400 m2/g, bulk density 20-40 g/dm3 , mass content of minerals:

non-purified – 6-20%,

purified - <1%

	CVD grown carbon nanofibers:

Laboratory installation
for CVD of CNT/CNF:
20-40 g of CNT (CNF)/h

Pilot installation for CVD manufacturing of CNT
(now is being assembled):
Up to 1 kg CNT /day

New catalysts for CNT/CNF CVD growing and new methods of catalyst obtaining:

vUse of redox-methods

vImproved co-precipitation techniques

vUse of “appearing reagent” method

vMechanochemical methods

vAerosils as CNT bulk density and gregation decreasing components

vPyrolysis of metal-containing organic precursors

vSol-gel techniques

Solid state reaction synthesis of carbon nanomaterials:		Carbon nanotubes grown on exfoliated graphite
		Carbon nanotubes grown on exfoliated graphite

MWNT reinforced composites: CNT-PTFE	Materialsà Parameters ¯	Pure PTFE	Commercial composite F4K20	Commercial composite F4KVP	CNT(15%)-PTFE composites
	Yield stress, MPa	10	11.5	15.4	18-24
	Elasticity modulus, MPa	590	685	-	1200-1500

O u r P u b l i c a t i o n s:

Carbon material. Ukrainian Pat. 61826A.

Method of obtaining of carbon nanotubes. Ukrainian Pat. 69292A.

Method of obtaining of catalysts for CVD of carbon nanofibers. Ukrainian Pat. 69291A.

Method of obtaining of catalysts for CVD of carbon nanotubes. Ukrainian Pat. Application 20041008154.

Synthesis of thin carbon nanotubes on co-precipitated metaloxide catalysts //Russian J. of Applied Chem., in press.

Synthesis of porous carbon nanofibers on mechanochemically obtained catalysts //Russian J. of Applied Chem., in press.

Synthesis of carbon nanotubes from calcium carbide //Nanosystems, Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies (Kyiv), in press.

Carbon nanostructures as hydrogen-adsorbing materials for battery anodes //(together with Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry)

-Russian J. of Applied Chem., 2004, v. 77, p. 1980-1984.

Synthesis and structural peculiarities of the expanded graphite modified by carbon nanostructures //Hydrogen Materials Science and Chemistry of Carbon Nanomaterials.

2004. – P. 405-414.

Synthesis of carbon nanotubes from a chlorine-containing precursor and their properties //Carbon, 2004, v. 42, No 12-13, p. 2581-2587.

Laboratory installation for CVD of CNT/CNF: 20-40 g of CNT (CNF)/h

Laboratory installation
for CVD of CNT/CNF:
20-40 g of CNT (CNF)/h