TY - JOUR
T1 - Encapsulation of crystalline boron carbide into graphitic nanoclusters from the arc-discharge soot
AU - Zhou, D.
AU - Seraphin, S.
AU - Withers, J. C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledgev aluablediscussions with J. Jiao and M.A. Minke of the Universityo f Arizona,a ndR.S. Ruoff of SRI InternationaMl,e nlo Park, California.T he authorst hankB . Cort of MER Corp. with the help in the samplep reparationT.h e Universityo f Arizona researchw as supportedb y Grant No. DMR 921805f rom the US NationalS ci-ence Foundationa, nd the MER researchw as supported under the US DOE contract No. DE-FG0292ER81272.
PY - 1995/3/3
Y1 - 1995/3/3
N2 - Boron carbide crystals were encapsulated into multiwalled graphitic carbon clusters that were prepared from a boron-containing composite anode by utilizing arc-discharge. The encapsulants are compounds of the lightest element that has yet been encapsulated, and the first of the non-metallic. The encapsulated multiwalled clusters are predominantly observed in the soot, a location where rarely graphitic multiwalled structures have ever been found before. The known tendency of boron to catalyze graphitization can possibly explain this observation.
AB - Boron carbide crystals were encapsulated into multiwalled graphitic carbon clusters that were prepared from a boron-containing composite anode by utilizing arc-discharge. The encapsulants are compounds of the lightest element that has yet been encapsulated, and the first of the non-metallic. The encapsulated multiwalled clusters are predominantly observed in the soot, a location where rarely graphitic multiwalled structures have ever been found before. The known tendency of boron to catalyze graphitization can possibly explain this observation.
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U2 - 10.1016/0009-2614(95)00039-7
DO - 10.1016/0009-2614(95)00039-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000275717
VL - 234
SP - 233
EP - 239
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
SN - 0009-2614
IS - 1-3
ER -