
Single-walled carbon nanotubes directly-grown from orientated carbon nanorings
- 한국탄소학회
- Carbon Letters
- 제27권
- : SCOPUS, SCIE, KCI등재
- 2018.07
- 35 - 41 (7 pages)
Surfactant-wrapped separation methods of metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes(SWCNTs) can result in large changes in intrinsic physical and chemical properties due to electronic interactions between a nanotube and a surfactant. Our approach to synthesize SWCNTs with an electronic feature relied on utilizing carbon nanorings, [n] cycloparaphenylenes([n]CPPs), which are the fundamental unit of armchair type SWCNTs(a-SWCNTs) that possess a metallic feature without any surfactants. To obtain long tubular structures from [n]CPPs, the host-guest complexes formed with well-aligned [n]CPP hosts and various fullerene guests on a silicon substrate were pyrolyzed under an ethanol gas flow at a high temperature with focused-ultraviolet laser irradiation. The pyrolyzed [n]CPPs were observed to transform from nanorings to tubular structures with 1.5–1.7 nm diameters corresponding to the employed diameter of [n]CPPs. Our approach suggests that [n]CPPs are useful for structure-controlled synthesis of SWCNTs.
1. Introduction
2. Experimental
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
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