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Electrophoretic Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) and CNT/Nanoparticle Composites

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Electrophoretic Deposition of Nanomaterials

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This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and CNT-nanoparticle composites. EPD has been shown to be a very convenient method to manipulate, arrange, and orient CNT from well-dispersed suspensions, whether aqueous or organic, and to deposit them on conductive substrates. Relevant EPD parameters such as electrode materials, deposition time, electrode separation, deposition voltage and resultant electric field are discussed. Moreover, micron-sized and nanoscale ceramic particles have been combined with both multiwalled and single-walled CNT, using EPD, for a variety of functional, structural and biomedical applications. CNT-ceramic composite layers of thickness in the range < 1–50 µm have been produced. Two common experimental approaches are discussed, specifically, sequential EPD of layered nanocomposites and electrophoretic co-deposition from diphasic suspension. Key processing stages, including the functionalisation of the CNTs, the adjustment of the relative zeta potentials of CNT and ceramic particles in suspension, as well as the optimisation of specific EPD parameters, such as deposition voltage and time, are discussed in terms of their influence on the quality and structure of the resulting deposits. Potential and realised applications of CNT-nanoparticle composites are highlighted, including fuel cell and supercapacitor electrodes, field emission devices, bioelectrodes, photocalytic films, sensors as well as a wide range of functional, structural and bioactive coatings.

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The authors acknowledge the support of Ms S. Keim (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) with some of the illustrations. CK acknowledge financial support from TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) under the contract number 108T651.

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Boccaccini, A.R., Kaya, C., Shaffer, M.S. (2012). Electrophoretic Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) and CNT/Nanoparticle Composites. In: Dickerson, J., Boccaccini, A. (eds) Electrophoretic Deposition of Nanomaterials. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9730-2_4

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