• DocumentCode
    1503051
  • Title

    Delivering on the Promise in Real-World Applications

  • Author

    Dorr, John

  • Author_Institution
    Vice president of business development at Nanocomp Technologies
  • Volume
    4
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    10
  • Lastpage
    13
  • Abstract
    Few technologies on the near-term horizon offer the potential for game-changing results as do CNT products. In an age where the state of the art in global defense, transportation, and energy depends on meaningful advancement and delivery of novel materials, it is critical to view scalability to be as important as product performance itself. To date, few nanotechnology manufacturers have solved the scaling problem, choosing instead to focus most of their resources on research and advances in material science. In the end, materials without a meaningful path to volume delivery will remain as novel inventions with very little practical value. Those nanotechnology manufacturers that address the issue of scaled production will indeed change the game in ways we can only begin to appreciate today.
  • Keywords
    carbon nanotubes; chemical vapour deposition; nanofabrication; C; CVD process; arc discharge; carbon nanotubes; chemical vapor deposition; chicken fence wire; end-product structural form; graphite structures; high-temperature furnace; laser ablation; lattice-like tubular form; metal catalyst; reactive gases; Carbon nanotubes; Chemical vapor deposition; Conducting materials; Manufacturing; Nanotechnology; Sheet materials; Steel; Thermal conductivity; Wire; Yarn;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nanotechnology Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1932-4510
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MNANO.2010.936602
  • Filename
    5472859