Journal article
Hydrothermal synthesis of multiwall carbon nanotubes
Journal of materials research, v 15(12), pp 2591-2594
Dec 2000
Abstract
Multiwall open-end and closed carbon nanotubes with the wall thickness from several to more than 100 carbon layers were produced by a principally new method— hydrothermal synthesis—using polyethylene/water mixtures in the presence of nickel at 700–800 °C under 60–100 MPa pressure. An important feature of hydrothermal nanotubes is a small wall thickness, which is about 10% of the large inner diameter of 20–800 nm. Closed nanotubes were leak-tight by virtue of holding encapsulated water at high vacuum and can be used as test tubes for in situ experiments in transmission electron microscope (TEM). Raman microspectroscopy analysis of single nanotubes shows a well-ordered graphitic structure, in agreement with high-resolution TEM. The hydrothermal synthesis has the potential for producing multiwall nanotubes for a variety of applications. The fabrication of nanotubes under hydrothermal conditions may explain their presence in coals and carbonaceous rocks and suggests that they should be present in natural graphite deposits formed under hydrothermal conditions.
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- Title
- Hydrothermal synthesis of multiwall carbon nanotubes
- Creators
- Yury Gogotsi - University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 842 West Taylor Street, M/C 251, Chicago, Illinois 60607–7022Joseph A Libera - University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 842 West Taylor Street, M/C 251, Chicago, Illinois 60607–7022Masahiro Yoshimura - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Materials and Structures Laboratory, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226, Japan
- Publication Details
- Journal of materials research, v 15(12), pp 2591-2594
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000165745900003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0034582734
- Other Identifier
- 991014969879604721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Materials Science, Multidisciplinary