End morphology of ball milled carbon nanotubes
Ball milling of nanotube samples results in short MWNTs with new tips generated and the length/diameter aspect ratio decreases gradually. In other words, the number of tips produced by the ball milling process is orders of magnitude higher than that of the starting material. It is therefore assumed that the cleavage of the nanotubes occurs …
Effect of ball-milling time on mechanical properties of …
To obtain a homogeneous distribution of CNT and lower damage of CNTs, 99.5 g Al and 0.5 g CNT powders were ball-milled with stainless steel balls in a stainless steel jar using a Planet-Ball-Grinding machine at 300 rpm.The ball-to-powder ratio of weight was 8:1 and the milling time was set to be 2, 4, 6, 8 and 12 h, respectively. 1.8 …
(PDF) Effect of high energy ball milling on the structure of …
In most of the reports on High Energy Ball Milling (HEBM) of transition metal -multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT), excellent interfacial bonding could be secured due to the presence of vacant 3d ...
Improving carbon nanotube dispersion in aluminum matrix …
During high energy ball milling, nano-reinforcements can be gradually dispersed in metal powders with the severe plastic deformation of metal powder particles.However, prolonged deformation soon results in intrinsic cold-welding of metal powder particles, leading to unpleasant dispersion effect and great difficulty in dispersing …
Single- and double-walled boron nitride nanotubes: …
Synthesis and growth of boron nitride nanotubes by a ball milling–annealing process. Acta Materialia 59, 2807–2813 (2011). Article CAS Google Scholar Zhong, B. et al. Large-scale fabrication ...
Boron nitride nanotubes: A review of recent progress on …
BNNTs are the carbon nanotube BN analog, a one-dimensional high aspect ratio nanostructure of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), where the boron and nitrogen atoms alternately substitute the carbon atoms. ... Ball milling will often produce metal-containing impurities from the mechanical wear of the ball or the metal-containing catalyst used ...
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A facile and eco-friendly approach using in situ-generated 4-benzenediazonium sulfonate (BDS) was applied to prepare highly functionalized carbon …
Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes Improved by Ball …
There has been an increase in interest in developing functional polymer composites based on green chemistry principles. The purpose of this study was to investigate the preparation of functional …
Synthesis of carbon nanotube reinforced aluminum
The optimized CNT-Al was agglomerated with pure fine Al powder by a high energy ball milling (HEBM) method to obtain several kinds of CNT-Al composite powder with different content of CNTs. The results show that the CNTs in CNT-Al composite powder synthesized at 600 °C showed the highest crystallinity with a reinforcement content of 7 …
Microstructural characteristics and mechanical properties …
The high energy ball milling process has been considered as an effective dispersion technique to achieve well-dispersed MWCNTs-reinforced composite powders for further processing ... Spark plasma extrusion (SPE) of ball-milled aluminum and carbon nanotube reinforced aluminum composite powders. Composites A, 41 (2010), pp. 322-326.
Unraveling the dispersion mechanism of carbon nanotubes …
With ball milling time further increased to 16 h (Fig. 6 g) and then 24 h (Fig. 6 h), the morphology of CNTs/Al composite powder gradually converted to spheres. ... Synthesis of carbon nanotube reinforced aluminum composite powder (CNT-Al) by polymer pyrolysis chemical vapor deposition (PP-CVD) coupled high energy ball milling (HEBM) …
A facile ball-milling method to combine carbon nanotubes …
Combining and modifying TiO2 with carbon materials such as carbon nanotube (CNT) towards applying a promising photocatalyst for gas pollution treatment have received much more significant attention. Herein, we combine and optimize CNT and commercial TiO2 by a ball-milling method towards a better photocatalyst in solar light …
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Carbon nanotube (CNT)/metal composites have attracted much attention due to their enhanced electrical and thermal performance. ... (Sn) matrix to boost thermal …
Optimizing ball milling parameters for controlling …
For milling, a planetary ball milling equipment was employed to carry out the process, utilizing a stainless-steel jar, along with stainless steel balls in a ball-to-powder …
Synthesis and growth of boron nitride nanotubes by a ball milling …
It is assumed that ball milling of boron powder produces a mixture of boron mesoparticles with mostly an amorphous phase of boron on the surface of the Fe particles as the milling time increases, while nanoscale Fe particles due to the high hardness of crystalline boron are expected in the milled samples. ... The nanotube in Fig. 7 c has ...
Balanced strength and ductility in CNT/Al composites
Flake powder metallurgy via shift-speed ball milling (SSBM) was proposed to combine the mechanisms of low-speed and high-speed ball milling (LSBM and HSBM) for carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced, strong and ductile aluminum composites.LSBM featured mild ball-to-powder collision and slow flattening of spherical …
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Reactive ball-milling (RBM) ... steel are used. 25 In order to further improve the quality of dispersion and introduce functional groups onto the nanotube surface, selected …
Single- and double-walled boron nitride nanotubes: …
Synthesis and growth of boron nitride nanotubes by a ball milling–annealing process. Acta Materialia 59, 2807–2813 (2011). …
Dispersion and Damage of Carbon Nanotubes in Carbon Nanotube…
Carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced Al-5Mg composites were prepared by combining ball milling, hot-pressing and subsequent hot extrusion. CNT distribution during milling and strengthening mechanism ...
Synthesis of boron nitride nanotubes from boron oxide by ball milling …
Ball milling–annealing method, which was proposed by Chen et al. [11], afforded a new approach for producing mass quantities BNNTs. ... Fig. 5 (b) and (c) shows the EDS spectrum of the metal nanoparticles located at the tip of large diameter nanotube and small diameter nanotube respectively. Strong peak of Fe, Ni, Cr and Al, Si, Cr was ...
High energy ball milling composite modification of Mg2Ni …
This study focuses on the preparation of a Mg 2 Ni hydrogen storage alloy through high-energy ball milling, further enhanced by composite graphene and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) modification. It is evident that high-energy ball milling successfully incorporates graphene and MWCNTs onto the surface of Mg 2 Ni particles. …
A combination of ball milling and high-ratio differential …
To examine the possible damage to the CNTs during ball milling and subsequent rolling, Raman spectroscopy was employed using the 532 nm line of a diode-pumped solid-state laser in the spectral range from 1000 to 1800 cm −1 with a resolution of 0.1 cm −1. The densities of the pure Cu and CNT/Cu composites were measured by the …
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ball milling at 400 rpm for 12 h in a zirconia ball-milling container. In a glass container, epoxy/CNT mixtures were transferred to jeffamine-D2000 (har dener) at …
Microstructural characteristics and mechanical properties …
In this study, carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced Al-Cu-Mg composites were fabricated by combining high-energy ball milling (HEBM) with semi-solid stirring casting technology (SSC). The effect of CNTs on the microstructural evolution and performance enhancement of hot extruded CNT/Al-Cu-Mg composites was investigated.
Microstructural characteristics and mechanical properties of …
For example, Wang et al. [24] prepared CNT/AlSi10Mg composites by mixing CNTs with AlSi10Mg and ball milling, followed by SLM, and it was found that the microhardness of the composites was 143.7 ...
Distribution of Carbon Nanotubes in an Aluminum Matrix by …
In order to overcome the limitations of standard ball-mill mixing processes to fabricate a uniformly dispersed carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforcement composite without damaging CNTs in matrix powder, a unique and easy solution-mixing process was developed. The present study aims to synthesize Al-0.5 wt % CNT composites using ball …
Hydrogen uptake of high-energy ball milled nickel …
Milling was carried out in a high-energy ball mill (SPEX 8000 Mixer) for 8 h at room temperature. The ball to powder weight ratio was 10:1. The crystal structure of Nickel/carbon nanotube composites was examined using Rigaku D/MAX 2500 X-ray diffractometer (XRD) equipped with a Cu-Kα radiation source (λ = 0.15418 nm).
Preparation of short carbon nanotubes by mechanical ball milling …
During ball milling, frequent collisions and the high velocity of the steel balls cause large impacts on the MWNTs. If the collision energy is high enough, the cylinder structure of the nanotubes will be cracked at the sites impacted and the tube layers ruptured completely. ... The intensity of these may be not high enough to cause nanotube ...
Modelling of carbon nanotube dispersion and
Carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced Al-5Mg composites were prepared by combining ball milling, hot-pressing and subsequent hot extrusion. ... In the past few years, ball milling-PM route has been widely used to fabricate the CNT/metal composites due to its easy operation and mass production. It was well documented that CNTs could be …
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A facile and eco-friendly approach using in situ-generated 4-benzenediazonium sulfonate (BDS) was applied to prepare highly functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The effectiveness of this functionalization was additionally enhanced by a green and short-time ball milling process applied beforehand. The obtained BDS …