Single-walled carbon nanotubes directly-grown from orien-tated carbon nanorings
관리자2018-08-06조회 3375
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.
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