Transmission Electron Microscopy and UV-vis-IR Spectroscopy Analysis of the Diameter Sorting of Carbon Nanotubes by Gradient Density Ultracentrifugation

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (14) ◽  
pp. 2219-2223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romain Fleurier ◽  
Jean-Sébastien Lauret ◽  
Ugo Lopez ◽  
Annick Loiseau
2011 ◽  
Vol 470 ◽  
pp. 171-174
Author(s):  
Hideo Kohno ◽  
Takafumi Nogami

We report a new route to fabricating carbon nanotubes and nanotube interconnects. Insulating Si nanochains covered with hydrocarbon, which are a kind of Si nanowire, can be transformed into distorted nanotubes of carbon by Joule heating. Transmission electron microscopy observations of the transformation reveal that first a surface carbon shell is formed, and then oxide evaporates by Joule heating forming a nanotube.


2020 ◽  
Vol 869 ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
Danila Bakhtin ◽  
Leonid Kulikov ◽  
Alexander Malakhov ◽  
Stepan D. Bazhenov

Samples of nanoscale nano-PAF-10 and nano-PAF-24 porous aromatic framework-like polymeric materials were synthesized using the Suzuki reaction in a microemulsion. Monomers were tetrakis-(p-bromophenyl)methane and 1,4-phenylenediboronic acid. The main idea of the approach is to use 1,4-phenylenediboronic acid not only as a direct participant in the reaction, but also as a surfactant, which allows to stabilize the drops of the emulsion. Using this procedure, samples of PAF-like polymers were synthesized from the mixture, containing the mixture of tetrakis(p-bromophenyl)methane and 1,4-phenylenediboronic acid in ratio from 1:2 to 1:6; the reaction was conducted from 10 to 24 hours. The resulting materials were characterized by IR spectroscopy, NMR spectroscop. To estimate the particle size of the obtained materials, transmission electron microscopy was used. The object of the study were polymers, that were synthesized in 10-hour and 24-hour reactions. The particle size in the first material was in the range of 3-10 nm, in the second - from 30 to 100 nm.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariachiara Trapani ◽  
Antonino Mazzaglia ◽  
Anna Piperno ◽  
Annalaura Cordaro ◽  
Roberto Zagami ◽  
...  

The ability of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) covalently functionalized with polyamine chains of different length (ethylenediamine, EDA and tetraethylenepentamine, EPA) to induce the J-aggregation of meso-tetrakis(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin (TPPS) was investigated in different experimental conditions. Under mild acidic conditions, protonated amino groups allow for the assembly by electrostatic interaction with the diacid form of TPPS, leading to hybrid nanomaterials. The presence of only one pendant amino group for a chain in EDA does not lead to any aggregation, whereas EPA (with four amine groups for chain) is effective in inducing J-aggregation using different mixing protocols. These nanohybrids have been characterized through UV/Vis extinction, fluorescence emission, resonance light scattering and circular dichroism spectroscopy. Their morphology and chemical composition have been elucidated through transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). TEM and STEM analysis evidence single or bundles of MWCNTs in contact with TPPS J-aggregates nanotubes. The nanohybrids are quite stable for days, even in aqueous solutions mimicking physiological medium (NaCl 0.15 M). This property, together with their peculiar optical features in the therapeutic window of visible spectrum, make them potentially useful for biomedical applications.


Clay Minerals ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. McBride ◽  
V. C. Farmer ◽  
J. D. Russell ◽  
J. M. Tait ◽  
B. A. Goodman

AbstractThe procedure for synthesizing proto-imogolite (an acid-soluble hydroxy-aluminium orthosilicate complex) and imogolite (a tubular aluminosilicate mineral) was used to produce ferruginous aluminosilicates over a range of Al/Fe ratios to determine whether Fe3+ can be incorporated in the imogolite structure. Analysis of the synthesized products by transmission electron microscopy, electron diffraction, and IR spectroscopy indicated that, while imogolite was formed in the presence of iron, increased Fe3+ in the systems caused the formation of ferrihydrite and poorly-organized aluminosilicates resembling proto-imogolite allophane. Treatment of these materials with Na-citrate/dithionite/bicarbonate dissolved the ferrihydrite and poorly-organized aluminosilicate, and concentrated products with tubular morphology. Analysis of the structural Fe3+ by ESR spectroscopy suggested that little or no Fe3+ was incorporated in the structure of imogolite, although the less crystalline proto-imogolite allophane may have accommodated some structural Fe3+. A separate iron-rich product, identified as ferrihydrite, was formed at low Al/Fe ratios. Mössbauer spectroscopic analysis of 57Fe3+ doped at very low levels into proto-imogolite and imogolite indicated that the sites of substitution were better defined in the latter. At least part of this Fe3+ may have been incorporated in the structure of boehmite, an impurity formed during synthesis.


2011 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Ya Yu Wang ◽  
Wei Tao Zheng ◽  
Zan Wang

Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (N-CNTs) were synthesized using air as the nitrogen carrier gas and CH4 as the carbon source by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition over a thin catalyst film of Fe50Ni50. Transmission electron microscopy and high resolution transmission electron microscopy measurements have indicated that the N-CNTs grew with a tip-type growth mode. When H2 was added to the CH4/air plasmas during the N-CNTs growth stage, it was found that Fe/Ni oxide nanowire was filled into the nanotube. However, without adding H2 in the CH4/air mixture plasma, only metal oxide nanoparticle was found on the tip of the N-CNT.


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