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Continuous and Scalable Fabrication of Transparent Conducting Carbon Nanotube Films

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Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) transparent conducting films (TCFs) are attracting increasing attention due to their exceptional optoelectronic properties. Toluene is a proposed carbon source for SWCNT synthesis, but the growth parameters of SWCNTs and their TCF optoelectronic performance (i.e., sheet resistance versus transmittance) have been insufficiently evaluated. Here, we have for the first time reported a systematic study of the fabrication of high-performance SWCNT TCFs using toluene alone as the carbon source. The mechanisms behind each observed phenomenon were elucidated using optical and microscopy techniques. By optimizing the growth parameters, high yields of SWCNT TCFs exhibiting a considerably low sheet resistance of 57 Ω/sq at 90% transmittance were obtained. This competitive optoelectronic performance is mainly attributable to long SWCNT bundles (mean length is 41.4 μm) in the film. Additionally, a chirality map determined by electron diffraction displays a bimodal distribution of chiral angles divided at 15°, which is close to both armchair and zigzag edges. Our study paved the way towards scaled-up production of SWCNTs for the fabrication of high-performance TCFs for industrial applications.

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This research received funding from projects 286546 (DEMEC) and 292600 (SUPER) supported by the Academy of Finland, as well as projects 3303/31/2015 (CNT-PV) and 1882/31/2016 (FEDOC) supported by TEKES in Finland. This work made use of the Aalto University Nanomicroscopy Center (Aalto-NMC) premises. The authors thank Dr. Mirkka Jones for proof reading.

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    Er-Xiong Ding, Aqeel Hussain, Saeed Ahmad, Qiang Zhang, Yongping Liao, Hua Jiang & Esko I. Kauppinen

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Ding, EX., Hussain, A., Ahmad, S. et al. High-performance transparent conducting films of long single-walled carbon nanotubes synthesized from toluene alone. Nano Res. 13, 112–120 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-019-2581-7

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  • single-walled carbon nanotubes
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  • toluene
  • floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition

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