Nanocarbon-based Material Platform for the Manufacturing of Multifunctional Materials

Mathieu R. Monville1, Kongara M. Reddy1, Riju Singhal1, Karlheinz Strobl1
1CVD Equipment Corporation, 355 South Technology Drive, Central Islip, NY 11722, USA

Introduction
The field of nanocarbon-based composite materials is naturally driving and stimulating applied research today because of the high potentialities offered by both nanotechnology and carbon: each nanocarbon species (nanotubes, nanocones, nanowalls, graphene and graphite nanoplatelets, fullerenes and carbon nanodots, etc.) presents its own specific physico-chemical properties and reacts and performs differently under the same conditions, thereby enabling the optimization of material properties for specific applications (energy storage, water