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Technique to Make Nano Carbon Tubes Buried Inside Rubber Composite Visible Using Femtosecond Pulse Laser Ablation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Yasunori Saito ,
Fumitoshi Kobayashi ,
Toshikazu Takeda ,
Akiko Takeuchi ,
Akio Nomura  and
Morinobu Endo
Yasunori Saito*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano City, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
Fumitoshi Kobayashi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano City, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
Toshikazu Takeda
Affiliation:
Nichicon Corporation NAGANO Factory, Toyoshina-machi, Nagano 399-8205 Japan
Akiko Takeuchi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano City, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
Akio Nomura
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano City, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
Morinobu Endo
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano City, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: saitoh@cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

A method to observe the dispersion structure of carbon nanotubes buried inside a molding composite is described in this communication. The idea is that by utilizing the difference in ablation temperature between the tubes and the composite material, only the composite material, which has a lower ablation temperature, is ablated and buried tubes appear. This was applied to a rubber composite mixed with vapor-grown carbon fibers. A 150-fs pulse laser was prepared as an ablation source. In the ablation images observed with a field-emission secondary electron microscope, linear tubes, clusters, and connections of the tubes could be easily found in their original state.

Keywords

Laser ablationMicrostructureNanofiber
Type
Rapid Communications
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 10 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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