A simple route to short cup-stacked carbon nanotubes by sonication

Daisuke Shimamoto; Kazunori Fujisawa; Hiroyuki Muramatsu; Takuya Hayashi; Yoong Ahm Kim; Takahashi Yanagisawa; Morinobu Endo; Mildred S. Dresselhaus

doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2010.05.040

A simple route to short cup-stacked carbon nanotubes by sonication

Daisuke Shimamoto, Kazunori Fujisawa, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Takuya Hayashi, Yoong Ahm Kim, Takahashi Yanagisawa, Morinobu Endo, Mildred S. Dresselhaus

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A simple but effective way of producing short cup-stacked carbon nanotubes with high quality is demonstrated using sonication in an ethanol/distilled water mixture. The substantial removal of amorphous carbon deposited on the truncated conical layer-stacked nanotubes by controlled air oxidation was a critical precondition to cut the nanotubes without substantial structural degradation. The short nanotubes (below 1 μm) prepared by a sonication-generated shear force exhibited a narrow length distribution (median length = 0.2 μm) and chemically active edges in the outer surface, thereby resulting in high dispersibility in an aqueous solution.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3643-3647
Number of pages	5
Journal	Carbon
Volume	48
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2010.05.040
State	Published - Oct 2010

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