Abstract
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have received broad attention in the past decades due to their excellent physical and chemical properties and thus been regarded as a powerful candidate for future star-materials. Although various CNT products and their related applications have been demonstrated recently, their performance can hardly meet the researchers’ expectations compared with their theoretical properties. The current predicament is caused by the immature synthesis method, including the basic science and the producing technology. As the synthesis with controlled structures determines its future, this review summarizes the progress on the basic research and industrialization of CNTs in the past decades, including the fine structure control, aggregation status design and scale-up production, and further points out the way for the future development of CNTs combining with specific applications.
摘要
在过去几十年中, 碳纳米管由于其优异的物理和化学性质而备受关注, 被认为是一个强有力的未来明星材料. 尽管基于碳纳米管的诸多产品及应用实例相继浮现, 但是碳纳米管所呈现出的实际性质与理论值之间依然存在较大差异, 无法达到研究者的预期, 这源自于目前尚未成熟的控制制备技术. 碳纳米管的可控制备技术包括结构的精细控制方法和样品的宏量制备技术, 这在很大程度上决定了碳纳米管的未来发展前景. 基于此, 本文概述了近几十年来研究者们在碳纳米管的精细结构控制、聚合状态设计和样品宏量制备等方面的主要进展, 进一步指出了碳纳米管未来的可控制备技术必须与特定化的应用紧密结合, 以迎接即将来临的产业化时代.
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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2016YFA0200101 and 2016YFA0200104), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51432002, 21790052 and 51720105003), Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Planning Project (Z161100002116026), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (8201400852 and 8201400892), and the National Program for Thousand Young Talents of China.
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Zhang S, Qian L, Zhao Q, Wang Z, Lin D, Liu W, Zhang J conceived the study and organized the manuscript; Zhang J, Zhang S, Qian L, Chen Y contributed to discussion and revised the manuscript.
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Shuchen Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University, China. He received his BSc degree from Shandong University, China, in 2012, and his PhD degree from Peking University. His research interests mainly focus on the preparation and properties of low-dimensional nanomaterials, including the structure-controlled growth of SWNTs and their related applications.
Liu Qian received her PhD degree (2018) in physical chemistry from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She then became a postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Jin Zhang’s group in Peking University. Her current research interests focus on the controlled synthesis and optoelectronic applications of CNTs.
Jin Zhang received his PhD from Lanzhou University in 1997. After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Leeds, UK, he returned to Peking University where he was appointed as Associate Professor (2000) and then promoted to Full Professor in 2006. In 2013, he was appointed as Cheung Kong scholar. He is the Fellow of RSC. His research focuses on the controlled synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of carbon nanomaterials. He has published more than 260 peer-reviewed papers.
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Zhang, S., Qian, L., Zhao, Q. et al. Carbon nanotube: Controlled synthesis determines its future. Sci. China Mater. 63, 16–34 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-019-9581-4
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