摘要 |
The present invention is generally directed toward a method to create an enhanced carbon nanotube spaceframe network. The spaceframe network contains an assembly of regiofunctional carbon nanotube beams by crown-to-crown connection into nodes to form a networked lattice configuration. The inventive method includes selecting crown materials and applying appropriate processing conditions which result in the production of secondary forms. The crown materials include polymers with unsaturated sites, polymeric crowns, silicon boron, poly(hydridocarbyne). The processing conditions include radical initiation, vulcanization, pyrolysis, hydroboration at unsaturation sites, using silicon bearing polymers in the Rf-CNB crowns, dissolution of silicon containing organics into the nodes and poly(hydridocarbyne). The secondary forms include cross-linked polymers, carbonized, graphitized, ceramic, diamond-like along with tailored functionalization. |