A new method for preparing buckypaper by pressing a mixture of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and amorphous carbon

In this paper, a mixture of carbon nanotubes and amorphous carbon was pressed to fabricate a tablet-shaped structure of buckypaper. First, multi-walled carbon nanotubes were synthesized by the mechanothermal method. Subsequently, the multi-walled carbon nanotubes and ball-milled amorphous carbon were mixed. Then, they were put pressured to fabricate buckypaper. The results of Raman analysis of the produced buckypaper showed that the proposed method by forming a network of carbon nanotubes can be introduced as a novel way for the synthesizing of the buckypaper without any solvents. Scale-up fabrication, non-destruction of the structure of the nanotubes and subsequently maintaining the maximum quality of the carbon nanotubes, and flexibility of the process are the unique features of this approach.