Facile and Effective Purification of Arc-Discharged Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Centrifugation

Abstract:

Arc-discharged single-walled carbon nanotubes were purified by successive heating in the air, hydrochloric acid treatment, supersonic dispersion in aqueous sodium deoxycholic acid solution, and high-speed centrifugation. Scanning electron microscopy observation evidenced that amorphous carbon, metal/metal oxide nanoparticles, and non-tube carbon impurities are separated from single-walled carbon nanotubes step by step. The relative carbonaceous purity of the purified single-walled carbon nanotubes to the as-produced materials was estimated to be ~7.42 by solution/dispersion-phase near-IR spectroscopy.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 590)
• Pages: 211-215
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.590.211
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Shu Xiu, Min Lang, Jin Ling Gao, Yong Fu Lian*
• Keywords: Absorbance, Centrifugation, Dispersion, Purity, Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

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