Issue 3, 2019

High surface-area carbon microcantilevers

Abstract

Microscale porous carbon mechanical resonators were formed using carbon nanotube templated microfabrication. These cantilever resonators exhibited nanoscale porosity resulting in a high surface area to volume ratio which could enable sensitive analyte detection in air. These resonators were shown to be mechanically robust and the porosity could be controllably varied resulting in densities from 102 to 103 kg m−3, with pore diameters on the order of hundreds of nanometers. Cantilevers with lengths ranging from 500 μm to 5 mm were clamped in a fixture for mechanical resonance testing where quality factors from 102 to 103 were observed at atmospheric pressure in air.

Graphical abstract: High surface-area carbon microcantilevers

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 7 2018
Accepted
15 12 2018
First published
01 1 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale Adv., 2019,1, 1148-1154

High surface-area carbon microcantilevers

S. G. Noyce, R. R. Vanfleet, H. G. Craighead and R. C. Davis, Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 1148 DOI: 10.1039/C8NA00101D

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