Thin film mechano-energy induced slicing of carbon nanotubes under flow

TMD Alharbi, Q Li, CL Raston - ACS sustainable chemistry & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Controlling the length of CNTs is important for their applications. As-prepared CNTs are
typically nonuniform in length and are entangled, but for applications in electronics and …

Controlled slicing of single walled carbon nanotubes under continuous flow

TMD Alharbi, K Vimalanathan, WD Lawrance… - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are sliced with control over their length
distribution within a laser irradiated dynamic thin film in a vortex fluidic device (VFD) …

Fluid dynamic lateral slicing of high tensile strength carbon nanotubes

K Vimalanathan, JR Gascooke, I Suarez-Martinez… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Lateral slicing of micron length carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is effective on laser irradiation of
the materials suspended within dynamic liquid thin films in a microfluidic vortex fluidic device …

Unzipping multiwalled carbon nanotubes under vortex fluidic continuous flow

TMD Alharbi, AEH Alotaibi, D Chen, Q Li… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conventional batch processing in terms of unzipping multiwalled carbon nanotubes
(MWCNTs) suffers from discontinuity, safety and environmental issues, reproducibility, and …

Shear induced fabrication of intertwined single walled carbon nanotube rings

K Vimalanathan, X Chen, CL Raston - Chemical Communications, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Thin film microfluidic shearing of a mixture of toluene dispersed single walled carbon
nanotubes (SWCNTs) and water in a vortex fluidic device results in SWCNT nanorings (and …

Dynamic thin films in controlling the fabrication of nanocarbon and its composites

K Vimalanathan, CL Raston - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Thin film microfluidics are developed for a wide range of applications, including the
synthesis of various types of nanocarbon material, involving both 'top down'and 'bottom …

Coiling of single-walled carbon nanotubes via selective topological fluid flow: implications for sensors

M Jellicoe, CT Gibson, JS Quinton… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A thin-film microfluidic vortex fluidic device (VFD) housing a rapidly rotating tube inclined at+
45° imparts mechanical energy to the liquid, which can be harnessed to gain access to non …

Recent advances in microfluidics-enabled controlled reaction, assembly and exfoliation of inorganic nanomaterials

VVK Doddapaneni, A Chang, HY Jun, CH Choi… - …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidics, involving chemical or physical phenomena at the submillimeter length scale
under continuous flow, allows the controlled reaction, assembly, and exfoliation of …

Controlling nanomaterial synthesis, chemical reactions and self assembly in dynamic thin films

X Chen, NM Smith, KS Iyer, CL Raston - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advances in continuous-flow processors, which integrate sustainability metrics
including scalability, have established their utility in materials and chemical processing. In …

High yielding fabrication of magnetically responsive coiled single-walled carbon nanotube under flow

TMD Alharbi, Y Shingaya, K Vimalanathan… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The curvature in coiled single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) rings impacts on their
properties relative to straight CNTs, but the availability of such rings is limited. This has been …