Carbon nanotube film

• US 8,815,398 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2009
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., Tsinghua University
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., Tsinghua University
• Inventors: Jiang, Kai-Li, Feng, Chen, Xiao, Lin, Chen, Zhuo, Liu, Liang, Fan, Shou-Shan, Li, Qun-Qing, Qian, Li, Liu, Kai, Wei, Yang
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, Daniel H
• Application Number:
  US12/583,391
• Publication Number:
  US 20100124646A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,832 Days
• Field of Search: 428/408, 423/447.1, 165/185, 977/742
• US Class Current: 428/408
• CPC Class Codes: B82Y 30/00 Nanotechnology for materials or surface science, e.g. nanocomposites
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/26 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component, the element or component having a specified physical dimension
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/30 Self-sustaining carbon mass or layer with impregnant or other layer

Abstract

A carbon nanotube film includes a plurality of first carbon nanotubes and a plurality of second carbon nanotubes. The first carbon nanotubes are orientated primarily along a same direction. The second carbon nanotubes have different orientations from that of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes. Each of at least one portion of the second carbon nanotubes contacts with at least two adjacent first carbon nanotubes.

Claims

1. A carbon nanotube film, comprising:

a structure being free of polymer and elastically deformable along a second direction;

the structure is elastically deformed along the second direction by stretching and comprises;

a plurality of first carbon nanotubes orientated primarily along a first direction, the first direction being substantially perpendicular to the second direction; and

a plurality of second carbon nanotubes having orientations different from the first direction, at least one portion of each of the plurality of second carbon nanotubes being in contact with at least adjacent two of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes, wherein the plurality of second carbon nanotubes are dispersed disorderly, joined neither end to end nor side by side, have different extending directions, and a mass ratio between the plurality of second carbon nanotubes and the total of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes and the plurality of second carbon nanotubes is in a range from about 14% to about 33% so that the structure is capable of about 300% elastic deformation along the second direction.

2. The carbon nanotube film of claim 1, wherein one portion of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes are joined end-to-end substantially along the first direction and combined by van der Waals attractive force therebetween.

3. The carbon nanotube film of claim 1, wherein the at least one portion of each of the plurality of second carbon nanotubes being in contact with at least adjacent two of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes via van der Waals attractive force therebetween.

4. The carbon nanotube film of claim 1, wherein a distance between adjacent first carbon nanotubes of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes is in a range from about 10 micrometers to 50 micrometers.

5. The carbon nanotube film of claim 1, wherein the plurality of first carbon nanotubes and the plurality of second carbon nanotubes are uniformly distributed in the carbon nanotube film.

6. The carbon nanotube film of claim 1, wherein the structure is a grid.

7. The carbon nanotube film of claim 1, wherein a thickness of the carbon nanotube film is in a range from about 0.5 nanometers to about 1 millimeter.

8. The carbon nanotube film of claim 1, wherein a light transmittance of the carbon nanotube film is in a range from about 84% to about 95% to light having a wavelength ranging from about 190 nanometers to about 900 nanometers.

9. The carbon nanotube film of claim 1, wherein the carbon nanotube film is a free-standing structure.

10. A carbon nanotube film, comprising:

a structure being elastically deformable along a second direction;

the structure is elastically deformed along the second direction by stretching and consists of;

a plurality of first carbon nanotubes arranged side by side and primarily orientated along a first direction, the first direction being substantially perpendicular to the second direction; and

a plurality of second carbon nanotubes being arranged along directions different from the first direction, wherein some of the plurality of second carbon nanotubes being in contact with at least adjacent two of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes via van der Waals attractive force, wherein the plurality of second carbon nanotubes are dispersed disorderly, joined neither end to end nor side by side, have different extending directions, and a mass ratio between the plurality of second carbon nanotubes and the total of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes and the plurality of second carbon nanotubes is in a range from about 14% to about 33% so that the structure is capable of about 300% elastic deformation along the second direction.

11. A carbon nanotube film, comprising:

a pure carbon nanotube structure, the pure carbon nanotube structure being elastically deformable along a second direction;

the pure carbon nanotube structure is elastically deformed along a second direction by stretching and comprises;

a plurality of first carbon nanotubes orientated primarily along a first direction, one portion of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes are joined end-to-end, the first direction being substantially perpendicular to the second direction; and

a plurality of second carbon nanotubes being arranged along directions different from the first direction, each of the plurality of second carbon nanotubes being in contact with at least adjacent two of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes, wherein the plurality of second carbon nanotubes are dispersed disorderly, joined neither end to end nor side by side, have different extending directions, and a mass ratio between the plurality of second carbon nanotubes and the total of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes and the plurality of second carbon nanotubes is in a range from about 14% to about 33% so that the structure is capable of about 300% elastic deformation along the second direction.