Abstract

Aerosol chemical vapor deposition (CVD) – a particular case of floating catalyst CVD method with an extreme dilution of catalyst – has been demonstrated to be one of the most advanced one-stage and continuous techniques for the production of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) for various applications in electronics, optics, energy storage, etc. Nevertheless, rational scaling of the aerosol CVD reactor is often limited by a fundamental problem of tracking the growth kinetics, in particular, the nanotube growth rate and the catalyst deactivation rate. We propose a robust method for the assessment of nanotube growth kinetics (growth rate and catalyst lifetime) based on the analysis of the SWCNT film equivalent sheet resistance (R90) versus residence time (τ) dependencies. We have demonstrated identical trends of R90-vs-τ and length-vs-τ curves at different concentrations of CO2 used as a promoter in the Boudouard reaction- (CO-) based synthesis. As a result, we have revealed the mechanisms behind the CO2 effect on the catalyst deactivation rate not reported before. In particular, we observed an increase in CO2 concentration to provide a faster growth rate but an earlier catalyst deactivation. We believe this work might be useful for researchers from both academia and industry and facilitate more active development of aerosol CVD methods for the production of new materials.

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