US 7,592,050 B2
Method for forming carbon nanotube thin film
Miho Watanabe, Kanagawa (Japan); Chikara Manabe, Kanagawa (Japan); Taishi Shigematsu, Kanagawa (Japan); Masaki Hirakata, Kanagawa (Japan); Shinsuke Okada, Saitama (Japan); and Shigeki Ooma, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jun. 03, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/143,606.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-371532 (JP), filed on Dec. 22, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0134326 A1, Jun. 22, 2006
Int. Cl. B05D 1/18 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 427—430.1  [427/434.3; 977/890; 977/892] 14 Claims
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1. A method for producing a carbon nanotube thin film comprising:
a step of dropping a mixed liquid containing carbon nanotubes and an ionic liquid onto a liquid surface of a film forming liquid to spread the carbon nanotubes on the liquid surface;
wherein the carbon nanotubes are dispersed in the ionic liquid, and
the carbon nanotubes have a functional group selected from the group consisting of: —COOH, —OH, —CHO, —COOR and —SiR3 wherein R represents a hydrocarbon group.