A comprehensive review of carbon nanotubes: growth mechanisms, preparation and applications

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have a wide range of applications in many fields, such as electronic devices, composites, sensors, catalysts, hydrogen storage materials, biomedicine, and energy, due to their unique structure and excellent physicochemical properties. As new composite materials require more and more precise control of carbon nanotube growth, the traditional research on carbon nanotube growth mechanism and growth parameter mechanism is difficult to meet the demand for precise control of carbon nanotube growth under complex conditions such as in-situ growth on the surface of composite materials. Given, Because of, it has become one of the hotspots to explore the growth mechanism of CNTs on the microscopic scale by high-end characterization tests and simulations under complex conditions, and then precisely regulate the growth of CNTs. This paper summarizes the latest research progress on the growth mechanism, preparation, and application of CNTs in recent years, and focuses on the research progress on the latest application of CNTs in different fields of high-end materials, especially in the control of carbon nanotube growth by intelligent algorithms and other aspects of the proposed new understanding.

Keywords:

• Carbon nanotubes
• carbon nanotube applications
• catalysts
• machine learning
• reactors

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 52206096, No. 52336003), Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province (NO. ts20190937).