title: The importance of an extensive elemental analysis of single-walled carbon nanotube soot.
abstract: Few manufacturers provide elemental analysis information on the certificates of analysis of their single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) soot products, and those who do primarily perform surface sensitive analyses that may not accurately represent the bulk properties of heterogeneous soot samples. Since the accurate elemental analysis of SWCNT soot is a requisite for exacting assessments of product quality and environmental health and safety (EH&S) risk, the purpose of this work was to develop a routine laboratory procedure for an extensive elemental analysis of SWCNT soot using bulk methods of analyses. Herein, a combination of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen (CHNS/O) combustion analyses, oxygen flask combustion/anion chromatography (OFC/AC), graphite furnace-atomic absorption spectroscopy (GF-AAS), and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) were used to generate a 77-element analysis of two as-received CoMoCAT®SWCNT soot products. Fourteen elements were detected in one product, nineteen in the other, and each data set was compared to its respective certificate of analysis. The addition of the OFC/AC results improved the accuracy of elements detected by GF-AAS and ICP-MS, and an assessment was performed on the results that concluded that the trace elemental impurities should not pose an EH&S concern if these soot products became airborne.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Braun
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080, USA.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pantano
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