Imaging As-Grown [60]Fullerene Nanotubes by Template Technique

• Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 124; no. 45; pp. 13370 - 13371
• Main Authors: Liu, Huibiao, Li, Yuliang, Jiang, Lei, Luo, Hongyuan, Xiao, Shengqiang, Fang, Hongjuan, Li, Hongmei, Zhu, Daoben, Yu, Dapeng, Xu, Jun, Xiang, Bing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Chemical Society 13.11.2002
• Subjects: Chemistry; Colloidal state and disperse state; Exact sciences and technology; General and physical chemistry; Miscellaneous; Scanning electron microscopy; Transmission electron microscopy; Fullerene compounds; Electron diffraction; Nanotube; Surface properties; Atomic cluster; Surface area; Experimental study; Template activity; Template specificity

In this contribution we have developed a useful and experimentally easy way to use C60 powder to directly fabricate C60 nanotubes with a mondisperse size distribution and uniform orientation. The structure of C60 nanotubes was confirmed by SEM, TEM, and FT-IR.