Carbon nanotubes and other fullerene nanocrystals in domestic propane and natural gas combustion streams.
Carbon nanotubes and other aggregated fullerene-related multi-layer shell structures have been collected in propane and natural gas flame emissions from domestic cooking stoves and observed by transmission electron microscopy. Some aggregated nanoparticles collected on 3 mm electron microscope grids by thermal precipitation were mostly multi-walled nanotubes; many tangled and distorted, and aggregated with other closed-concentric, multi-shell forms. Such clean-burning regimes may be major contributors to complex particulate matter in indoor and outdoor air.
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Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA.
Guerrero
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Lopez
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Murr
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Esquivel
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D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry; D003296:Cooking; D005579:Fossil Fuels; D037741:Fullerenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D006358:Hot Temperature; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / Q000379:methods*; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D011407:Propane / Q000737:chemistry*; D013997:Time Factors
D005579:Fossil Fuels; D037741:Fullerenes; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D002244:Carbon; D011407:Propane