| 摘要 |
Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for synthesizing carbon nanotubes, including a fuel supply unit for supplying a large amount of liquid metal catalyst mixture using a syringe pump for quantitatively supplying a liquid metal catalyst mixture, mixed with hydrocarbon-based liquid carbon sources such as xylene, toluene, benzene and the like, and metal catalytic particles, such as iron, nickel, cobalt, molybdenum and the like, and a general liquid pump for supplying a liquid metal catalyst mixture depending on the amount thereof; an evaporation unit for evaporating and atomizing the liquid metal catalyst mixture supplied from the fuel supply unit into precursors having a uniform size on the nanometer scale; a carrier gas supply unit for transferring particles atomized in the evaporation unit to a reactor and transferring carrier gas, having an influence on the synthesis of carbon nanotubes, to the reactor; a horizontally oriented reaction unit for synthesizing carbon nanotubes in large quantities using the carrier gas supplied from the carrier gas supply unit and the precursors formed in the evaporation unit; a filtering unit comprising a filter for filtering residual particles among the atomized particles synthesized into carbon nanotubes in the horizontally oriented reaction unit and some of the carbon nanotubes synthesized in the vapor phase; and a vacuum generation unit comprising a vacuum pump configured to be connected with the filtering unit, decrease pressure in the reactor, and remove oxygen remaining in the reactor, or a continuous collection unit in the case where the apparatus includes a vertical type reaction unit.
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