Template synthesis of water-dispersible carbon nano "test tubes" without any post-treatment

Hironori Orikasa; Nobuhiro Inokuma; Shingo Okubo; Osamu Kitakami; Takashi Kyotani

doi:10.1021/cm0521368

Template synthesis of water-dispersible carbon nano "test tubes" without any post-treatment

Hironori Orikasa, Nobuhiro Inokuma, Shingo Okubo, Osamu Kitakami, Takashi Kyotani

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Abstract

Water-dispersible and uniform tubular nanocarbons with a diameter of about 10 nm were synthesized by the template method without any additional treatment after the synthesis. Since one end of each tubular nanocarbon is always open but another end is closed, the nanocarbons look like a "test tube". It was found that the present test tubes with a length not exceeding 5 μm were dispersible in water, but the 20 μm long tubes were precipitated. The origin of such water dispersibility was investigated by the detailed analyses of their structure and the dispersion state in water. It was concluded that the observed dispersibility was caused by the presence of an electric double layer around the wall of each nano test tube in water.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1036-1040
Number of pages	5
Journal	Chemistry of Materials
Volume	18
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/cm0521368
Publication status	Published - 2006 Feb 21

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