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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages 598-603Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2013.09.050
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Carbon nanotube yarns; Raman spectra; Thermal annealing; Tensile properties
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- Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO)
- CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering
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The realized mechanical properties of CNT macrostructures such as webs and yarns remain significantly lower than those of the individual CNTs. Structural changes induced by thermal annealing under inert atmosphere were assessed using Raman spectroscopy. Annealing above 1000 degrees C resulted in a marked decrease in the DIG ratio which can be attributed to an increase in the crystallite size or the distance between defects. The band component parameters obtained by spectral deconvolution reveal that the D band peak maximum shifts to slightly higher energy with increased annealing temperature. In contrast, the energy of the G band did not change. The full widths at half height (FWHH) of the D and G bands are seen to decrease with increasing annealing temperature. The tensile properties of the yarns have been investigated and it was found that the yarn tenacity did not improve with these structural changes. The effect of impurities in the annealing system such as oxygen, adsorbed water or organic surface contamination was also investigated. Crown Copyright (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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