Low-temperature growth of singlewall carbon nanotubes inside nano test tubes

Autor(en)

Hidetsugu Shiozawa, S.Ravi P. Silva, Zheng Liu, Kazu Suenaga, Hiromichi Kataura, Christian Kramberger, Rudolf Pfeiffer, Hans Kuzmany, Thomas Pichler

Abstrakt

From nano-test tube chemistry we determine details of low temperature growth of carbon nanotubes. Single-walled carbon nanotubes of various diameters are grown at different temperatures from a Pt organometallic precursor encapsulated inside template single-walled tubes. At the low temperature limits where the reactions are slower and milder, the inner-tube diameters are optimally determined by the outer-tube diameter. The growth temperature is determined for a given tube chirality and is found to be dependent on the diameter. It is lower for thinner tubes and can be as low as 600 degrees C for the (7.3) tube. In situ nano-test tube chemistry within a state-of-the-art microscope provides an idealistic nano-clean room experiment, which allows monitoring of a snapshot in the catalytic growth of a single-walled tube out of a Pt nanocrystal.

Organisation(en)

Elektronische Materialeigenschaften

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Surrey, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Journal

Physica Status Solidi. B: Basic Research

Band

247

Seiten

2730-2733

Anzahl der Seiten

4

ISSN

0370-1972

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.201000314

Publikationsdatum

2010

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103015 Kondensierte Materie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/cb31f58d-622a-4bd5-972c-a779031599df