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Functionalization of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes with Thermo-reversible Block Copolymers and Characterization by Small-angle Neutron Scattering
Published on: June 1, 2016
Continued growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Yuhuang Wang1, Myung Jong Kim, Hongwei Shan
1Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, MS-100, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251-1892, USA.
Abstract:
We demonstrate the continued growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) from ordered arrays of open-ended SWNTs in a way analogous to epitaxy. Nanometer-sized metal catalysts were docked to the SWNT open ends and subsequently activated to restart growth. SWNTs thus grown inherit the diameters and chirality from the seeded SWNTs, as indicated by the closely matched frequencies of Raman radial breathing modes before and after the growth.
