{"id":177053,"date":"2023-11-29T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T22:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/researchers-triple-carbon-nanotube-yield-for-leds-solar-cells-flexible-and-transparent-electronics"},"modified":"2023-11-29T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T22:24:44","slug":"researchers-triple-carbon-nanotube-yield-for-leds-solar-cells-flexible-and-transparent-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/researchers-triple-carbon-nanotube-yield-for-leds-solar-cells-flexible-and-transparent-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Researchers triple carbon nanotube yield for LEDs, solar cells, flexible and transparent electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-triple-carbon-nanotube-yield-for-leds-solar-cells-flexible-and-transparent-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Skoltech scientists have found a way to improve the most widely used technology for producing single-walled carbon nanotube films\u2014a promising material for solar cells, LEDs, flexible and transparent electronics, smart textiles, medical imaging, toxic gas detectors, filtration systems, and more. By adding hydrogen gas along with carbon monoxide to the reaction chamber, the team managed to almost triple carbon nanotube yield compared with when other growth promoters are used, without compromising quality.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, low yield has been the bottleneck limiting the potential of that manufacturing technology, otherwise known for high product quality. The <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cej.2023.146527\">study<\/a> has been published in the Chemical Engineering Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Although that is not how they\u2019re really made, conceptually, nanotubes are a form of carbon where sheets of atoms in a honeycomb arrangement\u2014known as graphene\u2014are seamlessly rolled into hollow cylinders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skoltech scientists have found a way to improve the most widely used technology for producing single-walled carbon nanotube films\u2014a promising material for solar cells, LEDs, flexible and transparent electronics, smart textiles, medical imaging, toxic gas detectors, filtration systems, and more. By adding hydrogen gas along with carbon monoxide to the reaction chamber, the team managed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38,4,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}