Preparation of Shaped Carbon Nanotube Composites with Porous Structures

Nooshin Salman Tabrizi; Maryam Yavari

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.829.46

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Preparation of Shaped Carbon Nanotube Composites with Porous Structures

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Porous structures of carbon nanotube (CNT) composites with highly accessible surface areas have numerous potential applications such as heterogeneous catalysts and adsorbents. In this study sodium alginate was added to CNTs dispersions as gelling agent. Before being dried, the hydrogels were shaped into bead, disk, and sheet forms. The alginate in the composites was then decomposed by heating up the samples under an inert gas. The morphology of the as-prepared composite was studied by scanning and transmission electron microscopy and the pore size distribution was measured by BJH method. The MWCNT composite showed a density of around 0.08 g/cm³ and a specific surface area of 164 m²/g. The as-synthesized porous composite was examined as an adsorbent to remove methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solutions. Complete removal of MB was observed. The adsorption isotherm and kinetics were also evaluated.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volume 829)

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Nooshin Salman Tabrizi*, Maryam Yavari

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Carbon Nanotube (CN), Composite, Porous Structures

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