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Microwave-assisted purification of HIPCO carbon nanotubes
Ester Vázquez1, Vasilios Georgakilas, Maurizio Prato
1Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Trieste, Piazzale Europa 1, 34127 Trieste, Italy.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 15, 2002
Abstract:
A very easy way for improving the purity of carbon nanotubes using a domestic multimode microwave oven is reported, in which selective burning of metal particles helps remove most of the iron content.