NDLI: The role of carbon precursor on carbon nanotube chirality in floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition

Content Provider	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Author	Paukner, C. Barnard, J. S. Koziol, K. K.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	We have studied the influence of different carbon precursors (methane, ethanol and toluene) on the type, diameter and chiral angle distributions of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) grown with the floating catalyst technique in a horizontal gas-flow reactor. Using electron diffraction to study their atomic structures, we found that ethanol and toluene precursors gave high single-wall CNT yields (92% and 89% respectively), with narrow diameter distributions: 1.1 nm to 1.7 nm (ethanol); 1.3 nm to 2.1 nm (toluene), with a propensity for armchair-type chiral angles. In contrast, methane-grown CNTs gave high double-wall CNT yields (75%) with broader diameter populations: 1.2 to 4.6 nm (inner CNT) and 2.2 to 5.3 nm (outer CNT) with a more uniform spread of chiral angles, but weakly peaked around 15 to 20 degrees. These observations agree with known growth models. However, double-wall CNTs grown with toluene showed an unusually narrow interlayer spacing of 0.286 ± 0.003 nm with suggestions of large, 20° to 25°, differences between inner and outer CNT chiral angles. Methane gave a large interlayer spacing (0.385 ± 0.002 nm) with suggestions of small 5° to 10° inter-tube chirality correlations.
Starting Page	17262
Ending Page	17270
Page Count	9
File Format	HTM / HTML PDF
ISSN	20403364
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	39
Journal	Nanoscale
DOI	10.1039/c6nr03895f
Language	English
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Methane Carbon nanotube Ethanol Electron diffraction Toluene Chirality CNT Carbon
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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