Low-Purity Hydroxylated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs)

Product Overview
Low-purity hydroxylated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are nanomaterials with exceptional electrical, mechanical, and thermal properties. They are formed by the helical winding of a single layer of graphite hexagonal lattice along a chiral vector, presenting a seamless hollow cylindrical structure. This product has a high surface area and is suitable for multiple high-tech fields. Manufactured using a catalytic method, it exhibits good conductivity and thermal conductivity, with its purity and surface modification enhancing its potential for various applications.

Key Features

• Excellent Electrical Conductivity: High conductivity and low resistance, making it suitable for efficient current transmission, comparable to excellent conductors like silver and copper.
• High Thermal Conductivity: Exceptional heat conduction capability, allowing rapid and efficient heat transfer, ideal for cooling applications in electronic devices and thermal management systems.
• Unique Mechanical Properties: Excellent strength and toughness, with tensile strength reaching 100-200 GPa and a Young’s modulus near 1 TPa, significantly enhancing the performance of composite materials.
• High Chemical Stability: Stable in most common chemical environments, resistant to reactions with acids, bases, and oxidizing agents.
• Optical Properties: Capable of absorbing and scattering light at specific wavelengths and potentially emitting light under certain conditions, suitable for optoelectronic applications.
• High Flexibility: Can bend and fold without breaking, making it ideal for flexible electronic devices.

Applications

• Electronics: Used to manufacture small, high-efficiency integrated circuits, field-effect transistors, and flexible electronic devices.
• Energy: Serves as electrode material in lithium-ion batteries, improving charge/discharge performance and cycle life; also suitable for making supercapacitors, enhancing energy density and power density.
• Composite Materials: Adding SWCNTs to polymers significantly improves material strength, stiffness, and toughness.
• Sensors: With high sensitivity and selectivity, it is suitable for detecting gases and chemicals, especially for biological molecule and cell detection.
• Nanomechanics: Used as components for building micro-mechanical systems, such as nano motors in nanotechnology applications.
• Aerospace: Applied in the manufacture of lightweight, strong components for aircraft and spacecraft.
• Other Fields: Has broad potential applications in catalysts, field emitters, conductive films, and bio-nanomaterials.