Abstract
A method is reported for the growth of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) using polyacrylonitrile as a solid carbon source and nanosized SiO2 particles as catalyst. The nanotubes were grown either on a Si substrate or as a freestanding film at temperatures as low as 800 °C. The smallest measured inner diameter of the resultant MWCNTs is about 0.6 nm and therefore this method provides a new direction to prepare MWCNTs with very small inner diameter from solid carbon source.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4754-4757 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Carbon |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| State | Published - Oct 2012 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry
- General Materials Science