A First Assessment of Carbon Nanotubes Grown on Oil-Well Cement via Chemical Vapor Deposition

Luca Lavagna; Mattia Bartoli; Simone Musso; Daniel Suarez-Riera; Alberto Tagliaferro; Matteo Pavese

doi:10.3390/nano12142346

A First Assessment of Carbon Nanotubes Grown on Oil-Well Cement via Chemical Vapor Deposition

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2022 Jul 9;12(14):2346. doi: 10.3390/nano12142346.

Authors

Luca Lavagna^{1

2}, Mattia Bartoli^{2

3}, Simone Musso^{1

4}, Daniel Suarez-Riera⁵, Alberto Tagliaferro^{1

2

6}, Matteo Pavese^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Turin, Italy.
² National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM), Via G. Giusti 9, 50121 Florence, Italy.
³ Center for Sustainable Future Technologies @POLITO, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Livorno 60, 10144 Turin, Italy.
⁴ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 77 Massachsetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
⁵ Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca Degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Turin, Italy.
⁶ Faculty of Science, Ontario Tech University, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5, Canada.

Abstract

In this study, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were synthesized on an oil-well cement substrate using the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. The effect of synthesis process on cement was investigated in depth. In this regard, FE-SEM, RAMAN and X-Ray spectroscopy were used to characterize the cement before and after the synthesis process to reveal the modifications to the cementitious matrix and some unique morphological features of CNTs.

Keywords: carbon nanotubes; cement clinker; chemical vapor deposition; composites.

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.