Georgia Tech: Carbon Nanotube Enabled Materials: Potentials, Challenges, and Applications

Carbon Nanotube Enabled Materials: Potentials, Challenges, and Applications

Program ID: TPFE 1001P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 1.4

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Course Description

Due to their exceptional mechanical, physical, thermal, optical, and electrical properties, carbon nanotubes are playing a critical role in the development of high-performance polymer composites. This short course provides a comprehensive overview on the properties, production, and applications of carbon nanotube enabled materials.

Instructor

Professor Satish Kumar has been with the faculty of the School of Polymer, Textile & Fiber Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 1989. His research interests include high performance fibers, polymers, and nano materials. He has over 130 publications; with over 50 on carbon nanotube enabled materials, nanofibers, and other polymeric nano materials and composites. He also holds several US patents in these areas.

Learning Objectives

To provide a general understanding of nano materials, historical perspectives, and the development of carbon nanotubes
To understand the processing and characterization techniques and properties of carbon nanotubes
To understand the applications and benefits of materials and structures containing carbon nanotubes

Course Topics

What are nano materials?
Introduction and historical perspectives
Development of carbon fibers (CF), carbon nano fibers (CNF), fullerenes, multi wall carbon nanotubes (MWNT), single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), and double wall carbon nanotubes (DWNT)
Synthesis and purification (CNF, MWNT, DWNT, SWNT)
Characterization of carbon nanotubes (Raman, UV, TEM, fluorescence etc)
Properties of CNF, MWNT, DWNT, SWNT (mechanical, thermal, electrical, electronic, optical, field emission etc)
Physical Chemistry and solution properties
Chemical functionalization
Polymer crystallization in the presence of nanotubes
Carbon nanotube films and fibers
Polymer/carbon nanotube composites (processing, characterization, properties)
Potential applications

Course Materials

Attendees will each receive the handout as a pdf file and/or hard copy.

Course Administrator

Dr. Youjiang Wang
School of Polymer, Textile & Fiber Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0295 USA
Phone: 404-894-7551. FAX: 404-894-8780
youjiang.wang@ptfe.gatech.edu