Control of hole opening in single-wall carbon nanotubes and single-wall carbon nanohorns using oxygen.
Due to the simplicity of the process, holes in the graphene walls of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and single-wall carbon nanohorns (SWNHs) have often been opened using O2 gas at high temperatures, even though this contaminates the nanotubes with carbonaceous dust (C-dust). To open holes with less C-dust contamination, we found that a slow temperature increase of 1 degrees C/min or less, in air, was effective. We also found that SWNHs having little C-dust could store a large quantity of materials inside the tubes. We infer that the local temperature increase due to the exothermic reaction of combustion may have been suppressed in the slow combustion process, which was effective in reducing the C-dust.
SORST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, c/o NEC, 34 Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8501, Japan.
Jing
J
Fan
Masako
M
Yudasaka
Jin
J
Miyawaki
Kumiko
K
Ajima
Katsuyuki
K
Murata
Sumio
S
Iijima
D000327:Adsorption; D006358:Hot Temperature; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties
D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D010100:Oxygen