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Low-Dimensional Materials With Protective Coatings For Applications Under Extreme Conditions, Qiming Zou
Low-Dimensional Materials With Protective Coatings For Applications Under Extreme Conditions, Qiming Zou
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Traditional ceramic-based, conductive materials used under extreme conditions are severely limited due to their conditional electrical conductivity and poor stability under harsh circumstances. Advanced composite structures based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) and high-temperature ceramics are expected to address this grand challenge, in which ceramic serves as a shielding layer protecting the VACNTs from the oxidation and erosive environment, while the VACNTs work as a conductor. However, it is still a great challenge to fabricate VACNT/ceramic composite structures due to the limited infiltration of ceramics inside the VACNT arrays. Hence developing a feasible method to infiltrate ceramics into VACNT …