Carbon nanotube aligned film as well as preparation method and application thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11225581-B2
Application number	US-201817271603-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 16, 2018
Priority date	Sep 14, 2018
Publication date	Jan 18, 2022
Grant date	Jan 18, 2022

Abstract

A carbon nanotube aligned film as well as a preparation method and application thereof are disclosed. The preparation method includes: providing a carbon nanotube dispersion solution comprising a selected carbon nanotube, a polymer as a carbon nanotube dispersing agent and binding to the selected carbon nanotube, an aromatic molecule binding to the selected carbon nanotube and allowing the surface of the selected carbon nanotube to have the same charges and an organic solvent being at least used for cooperating with the rest components of the dispersion solution to form uniform dispersion solution; and introducing a water phase layer to the upper surface of the dispersion solution to form a double-layer liquid phase system, partially or completely inserting a base into the double-layer liquid system, and then pulling out the base so as to form the carbon nanotube aligned film on the surface of the base.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A carbon nanotube dispersion solution, comprising:
a selected carbon nanotube;
a polymer as a carbon nanotube dispersing agent, wherein the polymer binds to the selected carbon nanotube;
an aromatic molecule, wherein the aromatic molecule binds to the selected carbon nanotube and allows a surface of the selected carbon nanotube to have same charges; and
an organic solvent, wherein the organic solvent cooperates with components of the carbon nanotube dispersion solution to form a uniform dispersion solution.

2. The carbon nanotube dispersion solution according to claim 1 , wherein the polymer comprises a homopolymer or a copolymer selected from at least one of polycarbazole, polyfluorene, polythiophene and polyphenylene ethylene, and a copolymerization unit of the copolymer comprises one selected from the group consisting of benzene, thiophene, pyridine, triarylamine, benzothiadiazole and one alkylated derivative of the benzene, the thiophene, the pyridine, the triarylamine and the benzothiadiazole; and/or, the selected carbon nanotube is a semiconductor type single-walled carbon nanotube; and/or, an average length of the selected carbon nanotube is 100-3000 nm.

3. The carbon nanotube dispersion solution according to claim 1 , wherein a structural formula of the aromatic molecule comprises at least one of formula (I)-formula (V):

wherein, X comprises SO 4 2− , SO 3 2− , CO 3 2− , NO 3 − or Cl − , Y comprises Cl, and Z comprises Na + or K + ; wherein the aromatic molecule comprises one of the following compounds:

4. The carbon nanotube dispersion solution according to claim 1 , wherein the organic solvent comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a haloalkane, an aromatic hydrocarbon and an aryl halide; wherein the haloalkane comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of chloroform, dichloromethane and dichloroethane; wherein the aromatic hydrocarbon comprises toluene and/or xylene; wherein the aryl halide comprises chlorobenzene and/or dichlorobenzene; and/or, a content of the selected carbon nanotube in the carbon nanotube dispersion solution is at least 0.5 μg/mL; and/or, a mass ratio of the selected carbon nanotube to the polymer is 1:0.001-1:100; and/or, a mass ratio of the selected carbon nanotube to the aromatic molecule is 1:0.005-1:50.

5. A preparation method of the carbon nanotube dispersion solution according to claim 1 , comprising:
at least mixing a carbon nanotube powder raw material, the polymer as the carbon nanotube dispersing agent and a first solvent to form a first dispersion solution and specifically binding the polymer to the selected carbon nanotube, and then separating a first resulting carbon nanotube from the first dispersion solution, wherein a surface of the first resulting carbon nanotube binds to the polymer;
at least mixing the first resulting carbon nanotube, the aromatic molecule and a second solvent to form a second dispersion solution and binding the aromatic molecule to the selected carbon nanotube and allowing the surface of the selected carbon nanotube to have the same charges, and then separating a second resulting carbon nanotube from the second dispersion solution, wherein a surface of the second resulting carbon nanotube binds to the polymer and the aromatic molecule; and
dispersing the second resulting carbon nanotube into the organic solvent to form the carbon nanotube dispersion solution.

6. The preparation method according to claim 5 , wherein the carbon nanotube powder raw material comprises a carbon nanotube powder prepared by an arc discharge method, a plasma discharge method, a laser ablation method or a chemical vapor deposition method.

7. A powder material, comprising:
a selected carbon nanotube, a polymer as a carbon nanotube dispersing agent, wherein the polymer specifically binds to the selected carbon nanotube; and
an aromatic molecule, wherein the aromatic molecular binds to the selected carbon nanotube and allows the selected carbon nanotube to have same charges;
wherein a structural formula of the aromatic molecule comprises at least one of formula (I)-formula (V):

wherein, X comprises SO 4 2− , SO 3 2− , CO 3 2− , NO 3 − or Cl − , Y comprises Cl, and Z comprises Na + or K + ; wherein the aromatic molecule comprises any one of the following compounds:

8. The powder material according to claim 7 , wherein the polymer comprises a homopolymer or a copolymer of at least one of polycarbazole, polyfluorene, polythiophene and polyphenylene ethylene, wherein a copolymerization unit of the copolymer is at least one selected from the group consisting of benzene, thiophene, pyridine, triarylamine and benzothiadiazole, and/or one alkylated derivative of the benzene, the thiophene, the pyridine, the triarylamine and the benzothiadiazole; and/or, the selected carbon nanotube is a semiconductor type single-walled carbon nanotube; and/or, a mass ratio of the selected carbon nanotube to the polymer in the powder material is 1:0.001-1:100; and/or, a mass ratio of the selected carbon nanotube to the aromatic molecule in the powder material is 1:0.005-1:50; and/or, an average length of the selected carbon nanotube is 100-3000 nm.

9. A preparation method of a carbon nanotube aligned film, comprising:
providing the carbon nanotube dispersion solution according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon nanotube dispersion solution is immiscible with water;
taking the carbon nanotube dispersion solution as an organic phase layer, and introducing a water phase layer on the organic phase layer to form a double-layer liquid phase system, wherein the double-layer liquid phase system is composed of the water phase layer and the organic phase layer; and
partially or completely inserting a base into the double-layer liquid phase system, and then pulling out the base from the double-layer liquid phase system to form the carbon nanotube aligned film on a surface of the base.

10. The preparation method according to claim 9 , comprising: inserting the base into the double-layer liquid phase system at a speed of 200-2000 μm/s; and/or, pulling out the base from the double-layer liquid phase system at a pulling speed of 1-5000 μm/s.

11. The preparation method according to claim 9 , wherein the water phase layer comprises pure water or an aqueous solution; wherein the aqueous solution also contains inorganic salts and/or organic solvents.

12. The preparation method according to claim 9 , wherein a material of the base comprises a rigid material and/or a flexible material; wherein the rigid material comprises an oxidized silicon wafer, a quartz plate or a sapphire substrate; wherein the flexible material comprises polyethylene naphthalate, polyethylene terephthalate or polyimide.

13. A carbon nanotube aligned film prepared by the preparation method according to claim 9 .

14. A method of preparing electronic devices, photoelectric devices or sensor devices, comprising the step of using the carbon nanotube aligned film according to claim 13 in a preparation of the electronic devices, the photoelectric devices or the sensor devices.

15. An apparatus, comprising the carbon nanotube aligned film according to cla

Assignees

• Suzhou Inst Nano Tech & Nano Bionics Sinano Cas

Inventors

• Gao Bing
• Qiu Song
• Jin Hehua
• Li Qingwen

Classifications

• Y02P70/50

  Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product · CPC title

• C01B32/168

  After-treatment · CPC title

• C01B2202/08

  Aligned nanotubes · CPC title

• C08K9/04

  Ingredients treated with organic substances {(treated with macromolecular compounds C08K9/08)} · CPC title

• C08J5/18

  Manufacture of films or sheets · CPC title