The present invention proposes a process for purifying raw carbon nanotubes to obtain an content in metallic impurities comprised between 5 ppm and 200 ppm. The process includes an increase in the bulk density of the raw carbon nanotubes via compacting to produce compacted carbon nanotubes. The process further includes sintering the compacted carbon nanotubes by undergoing thermal treatment under gaseous atmosphere in order to remove at least a portion of the metallic impurities contained in the raw carbon nanotubes, and consequently producing purified carbon nanotubes. These purified carbon nanotubes are directly usable as electronic conductors serving as basis additive to an electrode material without requiring any subsequent purification step. The electrode material can then be used to manufacture an electrode destined to a lithium-ion battery.

The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for producing a carbon nanomaterial product (CNM) product that may comprise carbon nanotubes and various other allotropes of nanocarbon. The method and apparatus employ a consumable carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) and a renewable carbonate electrolyte as reactants in an electrolysis reaction in order to make CNTs. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, operational conditions of the electrolysis reaction may be varied in order to produce the CNM product with a greater incidence of a desired allotrope of nanocarbon or a desired combination of two or more allotropes.

The present invention relates to carbon nanotubes that are excellent in dispersibility and a process for producing the carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes according to the present invention each comprise a wall that comprises a parallel portion and a narrowed portion having a tube outer diameter that is not more than 90% of a tube outer diameter of the parallel portion. Thus, the carbon nanotubes are readily dispersible owing to a high abundance ratio of easily-breaking portions.

A fibrous carbon nanostructure dispersion liquid contains a solvent and fibrous carbon nanostructures having at least one absorption peak in a wavenumber region of 500 cm.sup.−1 to 600 cm.sup.−1 in a light absorption spectrum.

The present invention relates to a carbon nanotube preparation method and system, which may improve the overall efficiency and economic feasibility of a reaction by collecting fine particles including carbon nanotube particles that have not grown enough and an unreacted catalyst produced during and after the reaction by using a separator at the exterior of a fluidized bed reactor, and then, injecting the fine particles as a bed prior to a subsequent cycle.

The present disclosure provides an apparatus capable of continuously producing carbon nanotubes having high crystallinity, a low residual catalyst content and a high aspect ratio. The apparatus for producing carbon nanotubes includes: a reaction unit configured to synthesize carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a supply unit configured to supply a carbon source to the reaction unit through a supply pipe; and a collection unit configured to collect carbon nanotubes discharged from the reaction unit, wherein the reaction unit may include a chemical vapor deposition reactor.

Methods for characterizing a nanotube formulation with respect to one or more particular ionic species are disclosed. Within the methods of the present disclosure, this characterization provides control over the surface roughness (or smoothness) and the degree of rafting within a nanotube fabric formed from such a nanotube formulation. In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a nanotube formulation roughness curve (and methods for generating such a curve) that can be used to select a utilizable range of ionic species concentration levels that will provide a nanotube fabric with a desired surface roughness (or smoothness) and degree of rafting. In some aspects of the present disclosure, such a nanotube formulation roughness curve can be used adjust nanotube formulation prior to a nanotube formulation deposition process to provide nanotube fabrics that are relatively smooth with a low degree of rafting.

activated carbon and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The activated carbon comprises a carbon aggregate containing a plurality of linear carbons and has a specific surface area of 350 m.sup.2/g or more, and the method comprises pretreating a carbon aggregate precursor by ball milling and reacting the pretreated carbon aggregate precursor with CO.sub.2.

The invention relates to electrotechnical industry, more particularly to lithium-ion batteries, and even more particularly to lithium-ion batteries with silicon-containing negative electrode (anode). The invention provides a method for producing an anode slurry (paste), an anode slurry (paste), a method for producing an anode for a lithium-ion battery, an anode for a lithium-ion battery, and a lithium-ion battery with a high initial specific capacity and a long cycle life with a large number of charge-discharge cycles over which the battery retains at least 80% of its initial capacity. This result becomes possible due to the presence in the anode material of bundles of single-walled and/or double-walled carbon nanotubes having a length of less than 5 μm, together with bundles of single-walled and/or double-walled carbon nanotubes having a diameter of more than 500 nm and a length of more than 10 μm.

Mineralization occurs during weathering of silicate materials/rocks rich in CA+ and Mg+, particularly peridotite which composes Earth's upper mantle. The carbon mineralization mantle peridotite is the base activated carbon for nanostructured-carbon-base-material. The nanostructured-carbon-base-material using mantle peridotite carbon mineralization based activated carbon nanotubes is a new catalyst for batteries and fuel-cell use that doesn't use precious metal such as platinum and that performs as effectively as many well-known, expensive precious-metal catalysts. The nanostructured-carbon-base-material using mantle peridotite carbon mineralization based activated carbon nanotubes makes possible the creation of economical lithium-air batteries that could power electric vehicles. The carbon nanotubes have useful qualities such as slim, strong, lightweight, high electronic conductivity, has metallic/semiconductive properties that are useful in (1) electronics i.e. wiring, transistor; (2) material that reinforced resin/metal; (3) energy source i.e. catalysis support, ion adsorption, capacitors; (4) nanotechnology i.e. nanostructure; and (5) biotechnology i.e. cell cultivating, drug delivery system, biosensor.