Method and apparatus for manufacturing carbon nanotube assembled wire

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a carbon nanotube assembled wire includes: a first step of supplying a carbon-containing gas at one, first end of a tubular carbon nanotube synthesis furnace to grow a carbon nanotube from each of a plurality of catalyst particles suspended in the carbon nanotube synthesis furnace to synthesize a plurality of carbon nanotubes; a second step of orienting the plurality of carbon nanotubes in a longitudinal direction of the carbon nanotubes in a first channel provided in the carbon nanotube synthesis furnace, and thus assembling them together, to form a carbon nanotube assembled wire; and a third step of collecting the carbon nanotube assembled wire using a collecting gas stream flowing from a second end of the carbon nanotube synthesis furnace opposite to the first end in a direction away from the carbon nanotube synthesis furnace.