Carbon nanotube fiber electrodes modified with surface-arrayed nanowires for enhanced mass transport in electrochemical nanofabrication
Lingchao Meng, Pengxiang Yi, Yabing Li, Zhicheng Ai, Yongchao Yang, Hao Li · 2026
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Description
Lingchao Meng and co-authors improved a carbon nanotube fiber electrode for wire electrochemical micromachining, a spark-free way to cut tiny metal parts. The plain fiber is strong and conducts well, but its smooth, water-shy surface traps bubbles and lets fluid slip, starving the cut zone and shaking the process. Their fix grows a forest of nickel cobalt sulfide nanowires, about 10 micrometers tall, straight on the fiber surface.
The spiky coat pierces the gas cushion, grips the fluid, and stirs stronger flow near the wall, as simulations and theory both showed. Cutting a nickel-based metallic glass, the coated electrode held a top steady feed rate of 0.8 micrometers per second and cut power swings from 2.2 down to 0.2 events per minute. Surface roughness fell about 60 percent, and a batch of 25 tiny stepped parts came out matching to within 0.1 percent.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lingchao Meng, Pengxiang Yi, Yabing Li, Zhicheng Ai, Yongchao Yang, Hao Li |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |