What is Buckypaper

carbon nanotube paper, sometimes referred to as buckypaper, is a random arrangement of carbon nanotubes is meshed in a single robust design, which can be handled with relative ease. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes were used to make paper nanotube, and were then modified by a platinum electroless plating method using a plating, based on the substrate improvement. This includes the use of a sacrificial metal substrate of the solution on the paper nanotube via a galvanic electro-resolution displacement reaction, while the platinum metal deposits is subjected. The samples were performed using SEM / EDS, and characterized by Hall effect measurements. Analysis by SEM / EDS clearly shows the platinum deposits (Pt) distributed on the surface of nanotube paper, and qualitative elemental analysis resulted in the co-deposition of other elements of the metal substrates used. If the stainless steel as sacrificial metal of a high degree of Pt was used to contamination by various other metals was observed. So were used in pure metals victims bimetallic Pt clusters on. The co-deposition of a bimetallic system carbon nanotube is a function of the type of metal and the exposure time. Hall effect measurements revealed some interesting variations in the density of carrier sheet and the dominant carrier changed P-type N when Pt was deposited on the paper nanotube. Perspectives on the use of the nanotube paper as a substitute for conventional carbon cloth in water electrolysis systems are also discussed.