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BuckyPaper

By: Matthew Kelso. BuckyPaper. What is it?. Buckypaper is made from carbon nanotubes 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. Nobel laureate Dr. Richard Smalley’s group first made buckypaper by filtering a nanotube suspension to prepare samples for various tests.

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BuckyPaper

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  1. By: Matthew Kelso BuckyPaper

  2. What is it? • Buckypaper is made from carbon nanotubes 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. • Nobel laureate Dr. Richard Smalley’s group first made buckypaper by filtering a nanotube suspension to prepare samples for various tests. • It is ten times lighter and possibly 500 times stronger than steel.

  3. How It’s Made • The most common way is to use sodium lauryl sulfate to improve solubility, and filter a suspension under pressure to make the paper. • A Frit compression method can also be used without additional substances by compressing a suspension in a syringe. • The tubes can be exposed to strong magnetic fields to align them and increase the overall strength.

  4. Applications • Computer and television screens • Heat sinks • Electromagnetic Shielding • Filters/Sensors • Growing tissue • Lightning strike protection • Improving composites

  5. References • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckypaper • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frit_Compression • http://www.buckypaper.com/ • http://www.buckypaper.com/2008.html • http://www.rinr.fsu.edu/spring2006/features/paperpromise.html • http://thefutureofthings.com/articles.php?itemId=24/61/

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