NanoComp

"LARGE SCALE SYNTHESIS OF CARBON NANOTUBES AND THEIR COMPOSITE MATERIALS"

• Research Training Network funded through the Fifth Framework Improving Human Potential Programme
• Contract number HPRN-CT-2000-00037

• Optimization of the synthesis conditions for large scale synthesis of multiwall and single wall carbon nanotubes.
• Control of the diameters (inner and outer) and length of the carbon nanotubes.
• Purification of the carbon nanotubes at a large scale.
• Preparation of composite materials for industrial applications.
• Multidisciplinary characterization of the as-made and purified samples, as well as the composite materials.

• Production of multiwall (MWNTs) and single wall (SWNTs) carbon nanotubes by the following methods: catalytic (CCVD), triphasic plasma, electric arc discharge and CW-CO2 laser.
• Purification of carbon nanotubes by oxidation, by acidic dissolution and by selective sedimentation using polymers.
• Synthesis of composite materials such as: polyaniline/MWNTs, PmPV/MWNTs and PVA/MWNTs.
• Characterisation of the nanotubes and composite materials by TEM, PIXE, PIGE, ICPS, XPS, NMR, Raman, TG, adsorption ... by the different partners.

• Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (BE) Coordination
• Université de Liège, Laboratoire de Génie Chimique (BE)
• Ecole de Mines de Paris, Centre Energétique et Procédés(FR)
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones cientificas, Instituto de Carboquimica (ES)
• Suiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institut de Génie atomique (CH)
• Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Laboratory for Nanostructure Research (HU)
• Jozsef Attila University, Applied and Environmental Chemistry (HU)
• Université d'Orléans - CNRS, Centre de Recherche sur la Matière Divisée (FR)
• University of Dublin, Trinity College (IR)
• Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung (DE)