Cutting single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Cutting Fluorinated/Ozonated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis and/or piranha treatment of fluorinated /ozonated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were found to have cut the nanotubes to short length (~100nm). Pyrolysis of partially fluorinated SWNTs (~C5F) at 700°C cut the nanotubes without causing significant crosslinking among the SWNTs. When pyrolyzed at lower temperatures, the fluorinated SWNTs need room temperature piranha treatment to...

Effect of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Natural Gas Hydrate Formation

Ag-catalysed cutting of multi-walled carbon nanotubes.

In this work, the cutting of carbon nanotubes is investigated using silver nanoparticles deposited on arc discharge multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The composite is subsequently heated in air to fabricate shortened multi-walled nanotubes. Complementary transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques shed light on the cutting mechanism. The nanotube cutting is catalysed by the fundam...

Radius Dependence of Hydrogen Storage Inside Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in an Array

In this study, we have investigated radius dependence of hydrogen storage within armchair (n,n) single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) in a square arrays. To this aim, we have employed equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. Our simulations results reveal that radius of carbon nanotubes are an important and influent factor in hydrogen distribution inside carbon nanotubes and consequentl...

A DFT study of interaction of folic acid drug on functionalized single-walled Carbon Nanotubes

In this work, the structural and electronic properties of folic acid molecule on functionalized (7,0)zigzag single-walled carbon nanotube was studied in gas phase on the basis of density functionaltheory (DFT). Furthermore, covalent interaction of folic acid with single-walled carbon nanotube wasinvestigated and its quantum molecular descriptors and binding energies were calculated. The DFTB3LY...