- Title
- Scalable growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes with a highly uniform structure
- Creator
- Hussain, Aqeel; Ding, Er-Xiong; Mclean, Ben; Mustonen, Kimmo; Ahmad, Saeed; Tavakkoli, Mohammad; Page, Alister J.; Zhang, Qiang; Kotakoski, Jani; Kauppinen, Esko I.
- Relation
- Nanoscale Vol. 12, Issue 23, p. 12263-12267
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr01919d
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Here, a scalable floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD) method is developed for the production of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with a controlled structure. For the first time, water is used as the growth promoter in the FCCVD process to modulate the growth of SWCNTs. At an optimum water concentration of ca. 115 ppm, the water-assisted FCCVD process synthesizes SWCNTs with a significantly narrow chirality distribution. In particular, the proportion of (9,8) and (8,7) semiconducting tubes was dramatically enhanced to 45% with 27% of the (9,8) tube in the end product. This is attributed to the changes in both the SWCNT diameter and the chiral angle. The experiment results and accurate quantum chemical molecular dynamics simulations show that the addition of water affects the nucleation and the size distribution of nanoparticle catalysts, thus resulting in the growth of SWCNTs with a highly uniform structure. This direct and continuous water-assisted FCCVD provides the possibility for the mass production of high-quality SWCNTs with a controlled structure.
- Subject
- floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD); single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs); water concentration; chirality distribution
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1420278
- Identifier
- uon:37567
- Identifier
- ISSN:2040-3364
- Rights
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.
- Language
- eng
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