Engineering Carbon Nanotube Microdrops Using Microfluidic Devices
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Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by Sumio Iijima in 1991 [1], they have been of great interest to the nanotechnology community. In this work, we explored microfluidic drop generators to fabricate CNT microdrops with a controlled geometry and fast throughput. On the one hand, CNT microdrops were assembled using CNTs water suspensions in oil. On the other hand, we explored the fabrication of CNT shells according to the Pickering emulsion principle. These CNT microdrops were first validated using shear mixing in vials and then transferred to microfluidic drop generators.
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