One of the most effective ways of synthesizing carbon nanotubes is the arc discharge method. This paper describes a system supported by a magnetic field which can be generated by an external coil. An electric arc between two electrodes is stabilized by the magnetic field following mass flux stabilization from the anode to the cathode. In this work four constructions are compared. Different conf...

This work was focused on the studies of gliding arc plasma discharge with respect to its use in decomposition of volatile organic compounds and on the solid phase microextraction analysis of the discharge products. The simple one stage gliding arc reactor was used for these experiments. The applied voltage generating the discharge was varied in the range of 3.5 – 4 kV, the dry air and its mixtu...

Fullerenes, a new form of carbon, were discovered in 1985 [1] in graphite vaporization under inert gas at low pressure. Fullerenes have many properties different from either diamond or graphite. Potential applications include superconductors, sensors, catalysts, optical and electronic devices, polymer composites, high-energy fuels and biological and medical materials. But wide application of fu...

The formation of novel structures by the passage of an electric current through graphite is described. These structures apparently consist of hollow three-dimensional graphitic shells bounded by curved and faceted planes, typically made up of two graphene layers. The curved structures were frequently decorated with nano-scale carbon particles, or short nanotubes. In some cases, nanotubes were f...

We have carried out comparative studies on transparent conductive thin films made with two kinds of commercial carbon nanotubes: HiPCO and arc-discharge nanotubes. These films have been further exploited as hole-injection electrodes for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) on both rigid glass and flexible substrates. Our experiments reveal that films based on arc-discharge nanotubes are overwh...

Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) suppress appetite, and lack of POMC-derived peptides or electrical silencing of POMC neurons causes obesity. ARC POMC neurons are surrounded by nerve terminals containing the wakefulness-promoting peptides orexins/hypocretins, but whether orexin affects their electrical activity has not been tested directly. Here we id...