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Fabrication, Densification, and Replica Molding of 3D Carbon Nanotube Microstructures
Published on: July 2, 2012
Direct imaging of carbon nanotubes spontaneously filled with solvent
Micah J Green1, Colin C Young1, A Nicholas G Parra-Vasquez1
1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA. mp@rice.edu.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 25, 2010
Abstract:
For the first time, cryo-TEM imaging is used to directly show spontaneous filling of carbon nanotubes immersed in a solvent in the native state at ambient conditions. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes are dissolved in chlorosulfonic acid, and the high contrast between the acid and the carbon shows the difference between filled and unfilled nanotubes.
