Multi-nucleation of single-walled carbon nanotubes in floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2023-01
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en
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7
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Chemical Physics Letters, Volume 810
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Floating-catalyst CVD (FCCVD) is a highly promising technique for the scalable synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The number concentration (NC) of catalyst particles is one of the process parameters which mainly influences yield of as-produced SWCNTs. In the conventional FCCVD methods, catalyst particles are usually synthesized by thermal decomposition of organometallic compounds inside the FCCVD reactor. Being in-situ catalyst formation in conventional FCCVD, it is an open question that how many SWCNTs a single catalyst particle can grow? Herein, we employed our novel spark discharged based FCCVD technique which decouples the formation of catalyst particles and SWCNTs synthesis into two subsequent process to investigate effects of catalyst NC on SWCNTs synthesis. The NC of both catalyst particles and SWCNTs in gas-phase were quantitatively compared using differential mobility analyzer (DMA). The DMA measurements corroborated with atomic force microscopy and X-rays photoelectron spectroscopy revealed that under carefully chosen reaction conditions in FCCVD, a single catalyst particle can grow more than one SWCNTs. We propose that after the growth of 1st SWCNT, the catalyst particle detach itself to start nucleating 2nd SWCNT and this process continues as long as the catalyst remains in the growth region of the FCCVD reactor.Description
Funding Information: The research described here received funding from European Union Seventh Framework Program under Grant Agreement No. 604472 (IRENA project), and the Aalto Energy Efficiency (AEF) Research Program through the MOPPI project. The research has also been partially supported by Academy of Finland via projects 286546 (DEMEC), 316572 (CNTstress) and 292600 (SUPER) as well as by TEKES Finland via projects 3303/31/2015 (CNT-PV) and 1882/31/2016 (FEDOC). S.A. acknowledges support from Higher Education Archives and Library department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. This work made use of the Aalto University Nanomicroscopy Center and Micronova facilities. The authors thank to Dr. Kimmo Mustonen for STEM images and Dr. Jani Sainio for XPS. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s)
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Single walled carbon nanotubes, Spark discharge
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Ahmad, S, Zhang, Q, Ding, E X, Jiang, H & Kauppinen, E I 2023, ' Multi-nucleation of single-walled carbon nanotubes in floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition ', Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 810, 140185, pp. 1-7 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2022.140185