Synthesis of monochiral multiwalled carbon nanotubes

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Abstract

So far, it remains a challenge to obtain multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with the same chirality for all of the shells, i.e., monochiral MWCNTs. Here we report the synthesis of the monochiral MWCNT, with all of the concentric cylinders of a MWCNT exhibiting nearly identical chiral angle, by using microwave plasma assisted CVD method. Among the all kinds of monochiral MWCNTs, several chiral angles are found to be statistically dominant.

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Authors

  • Xuedong Bai

    Institute of Physics, CAS, Beijing 100080, China, and National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  • Zhi Xu

  • E.G. Wang

    Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing, 100080, PR China, Institute of Physics, CAS, Beijing 100080, China, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China

  • Dmitri Golberg

    National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan