Patent ID: 11929504
Assignee: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  C  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of synthesizing vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs), the method comprising:
providing a pristine nickel foam (Ni—F) substrate in a reaction chamber;
lowering a pressure of the reaction chamber to below 1 Torr and providing a carbon precursor gas to the chamber while direct current (DC) plasma is applied to perform a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process to synthesize the VACNTs directly on the pristine Ni—F substrate; and
performing a physical vapor deposition process or a chemical vapor deposition process on the VACNTs connected directly to the Ni—F substrate to coat the VACNTs with nanoparticles such that the VACNTs have a coating of the nanoparticles on respective outer walls thereof.