WHAT ARE CARBON NANOTUBES?

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are tubular cylinders composed of carbon atoms linked in hexagonal shapes. Because of their composition, they have unusual mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical and chemical properties.  Unlike other carbon allotropes, Carbon nanotubes can be bent, and when released, they will spring back to their original shape.

Applying Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to practical applications requires scalable and controllable processing methods that retain the unique properties of individual CNTs in vast areas and volume. For controllable device fabrication, a critical factor is the ability to assemble CNTs on a substrate or free-standing form, while delivering alignment, density control, and transferability.

DryDraw®

IS A HIGH-SPEED MANUFACTURING, LOW MASS PROCESS THAT DELIVERS CNTS WITH NO LIMITATION ON WIDTH/LENGTH

Unlike traditional processing methods involving liquids/powders, Lintec’s CNTs technology provides robust, transparent, chemically stable, flexible and transparent sheets, tapes and yarns. Lintec’s CNT sheets can be rolled, kept free-standing or transferred onto any suitable substrate.

Lintec’s DryDraw® fabrication processes will supply uniform CNTs sheets suitable for continuous, high-rate production. By a unique process of dry self-assembly, cSilk® CNTs sheets are directly drawn from a CNTs forest.

This dry state self-assembly process employs optimized CNTs forest with particular morphological characteristics, taking into account preferential alignment of CNTs, their interbuilding, and interaction with the substrate used for growth.

Besides preserving the outstanding mechanical, chemical, and electronic properties of CNTs, cSilk® structures are self-supporting, flexible, transparent, pure, highly aligned, and optically tunable.

In the DryDraw process, sheets are directly drawn from vertically aligned arrays of Carbon Nanotubes (CNT)s, resulting in unique arrays of CNTs called cSilk®.

For controllable device fabrication, cSilk® can be rolled, delivered in free-standing form, or assembled on a substrate, while providing alignment, flexibility, and transferability.

Lintec’s multifunctional CNT sheets are self-supporting, flexible, transparent, conductive, and highly oriented, preserving the outstanding mechanical, chemical, and electronic properties of CNTs.

cSilk® sheets are mechanically stable and remain conductive upon coating and full infiltration.  Bending our CNTs does not alter their electrical properties.