Title :
Delivering on the Promise in Real-World Applications
Author_Institution :
Vice president of business development at Nanocomp Technologies
fDate :
6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Nanotechnology Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MNANO.2010.936602