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Published on: February 19, 2016
Gases Do not adsorb on the interstitial channels of closed-ended single-walled carbon nanotube bundles
1Department of Physics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Abstract:
We have experimentally determined the binding energies of Xe, CH4, and Ne on samples of closed-ended single-wall nanotube (SWNT) bundles. We find values for these quantities which are larger by approximately 75% on the SWNT samples than the values found for the same adsorbates on planar graphite. We have also determined the monolayer capacity of a SWNT sample using Xe and Ne adsorption. A comparison of all of our results leads us to conclude that none of the gases studied adsorb on the interstitial channels in the SWNT bundles.
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