High-pressure carbon monoxide method

Definition: A synthesis method for carbon nanotubes that involves mixing high pressure (e.g. 30 atmospheres) CO that has been preheated (1000 deg. C) and a catalyst precursor gas (metal carbonyl or metallocene). Under these conditions the precursor decomposes forming metal particle clusters on which carbon nanotubes nucleate and grow. The carbon nanotubes are 99% single-walled carbon nanotubes with small diameters (e.g., (5,5) tubes).

ID: CMO:0002321

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Supramolecular aggregation of functionalized carbon nanotubes
Mildred Quintana and Maurizio Prato, Chem. Commun., 2009 , 6005
DOI: 10.1039/b915126e

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Wall-to-wall stress induced in (6,5) semiconducting nanotubes by encapsulation in metallic outer tubes of different diameters: A resonance Raman study of individual C₆₀-derived double-wall carbon nanotubes
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