Doping of carbon nanotubes using low energy ion implantation.

Nitrogen Doping of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube by Using Mass-Separated Low-Energy Ion Beams

B and N ion implantation into carbon nanotubes: Insight from atomistic simulations

By employing atomistic computer simulations with empirical potential and density functional force models, we study B/N ion implantation onto carbon nanotubes. We simulate irradiation of single-walled nanotubes with B and N ions and show that up to 40% of the impinging ions can occupy directly the sp2 positions in the nanotube atomic network. We further estimate the optimum ion energies for dire...

An Effective Nitrogen Doping Technique for Improving the Performance of Lithium Ion Batteries with CNT Based Electrodes

Lithium ion batteries are among the most used rechargeable batteries in the world. Carbon nanostructures including carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are considered as important electrode materials for this kind of batteries. Therefore improving the performance of these carbon based electrodes in Lithium ion batteries is an important issue and attracts much attention in the battery community. In this manu...

Doping finite-length carbon and boron nitride nanotubes with aluminium atom: A thermodynamic semiempirical investigation

The doping reaction of truncated boron nitride and carbon nanotubes with aluminium atom wastheoretically investigated. The AM1, PM3, and PM6 semiempirical methods have been used toevaluate the thermochemistry of doping reactions of single walled boron nitride nanotubes andcarbon nanotubes. The enthalpy changes, Gibbs free energy changes, and entropy changes of studieddoping reactions were evalu...

Effects of Nitrogen Ion Bombardment on Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) have shown to posses most remarkable electronic and mechanical properties [1,2]. It is very interesting to study the effects produced on these properties after ion bombardment. Although a few works are related to the theoretical studies of ion irradiation on nanotubes [3,4], little progress has been reported on experimental results [5,6]. In fact, only the effect of Argon...