Research Profile - Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy ...

Krzysztof Koziol
Royal Society University Research Fellow
MSc Silesian University of Technology
PhD University of Cambridge
+44 (0) 1223 334335
kk292@cam.ac.uk
www.msm.cam.ac.uk/polymer/
Chirality Control of Carbon Nanotubes
My research work within the Macromolecular Materials
Laboratory involves exploration of the synthesis and applications
of substrate-bound and gas-phase-grown carbon nanotubes
further spun into fibres. My major focus is to understand the
chemistry during the nanotube synthesis in order to achieve
chirality control.
Synthesis of monochiral carbon nanotubes
This project is intended to explore a new synthesis method
discovered during my PhD research that promises chirality control
of nanotubes. Although that goal has not yet been reached, using
this process multi-walled nanotubes can be made in which each
layer shows the same graphene chirality with crystallographic
registry between the layers.
High-performance carbon-nanotube fibres for
power transmission
I am developing and optimizing different spinning routes for
carbon-nanotube fibres with unique chemical structure. Two
promising methods are via a liquid crystal base and directly from
the gas phase from the reactor. These carbon-nanotube fibres
have potential as lightweight materials to deliver high electrical
conductivity and high current density.
Mechanical and thermal properties of carbonnanotube
fibres
High strength, stiffness and thermal conductivity are important
properties in high-performance materials used in advanced
technologies and under extreme conditions. In this project I am
exploring different post-spin treatments of the nanotube fibres,
involving physical or chemical methods.
S Zhang, K Koziol, I Kinloch & AH Windle, “Macroscopic fibres of wellaligned
carbon nanotubes by wet-spinning” Small, 4 1217–1222 (2008).
K Koziol, J Vilatela, A Moisala, M Motta, P Cunniff, M Sennett & AH Windle,
“High-performance carbon nanotube fiber” Science 318, 1892–1895
(2007).
K Koziol, T Kasama, P Barpanda, R Dunin-Borkowski & AH Windle,
“Electron holography of ferromagnetic nanoparticles encapsulated in
three-dimensional arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes”, Mater. Res. Soc.
Symp. Proc., 962E, (2006), J. Fassbender, J. Chapman & C.A. Ross, Eds.,
Materials Research Society, Warrendale, PA, pp. P13-03.1–6.
K Koziol, M Shaffer & AH Windle, “Three-dimensional internal order in
multiwall carbon nanotubes grown by chemical vapour deposition” Adv.
Mater. 17, 760–763 (2005).
Electron diffraction patterns
of armchair and zigzag multiwalled
monochiral carbon
nanotubes
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