Mapping functional groups on oxidised multi-walled carbon nanotubes at the nanometre scale.

Autor: Goode AE; Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London, UK. aeg08@ic.ac.uk., Hine ND, Chen S, Bergin SD, Shaffer MS, Ryan MP, Haynes PD, Porter AE, McComb DW
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) [Chem Commun (Camb)] 2014 Jun 28; Vol. 50 (51), pp. 6744-7.
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc02026j
Abstrakt: Despite voluminous research on the acid oxidation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), there is a distinct lack of experimental results showing distributions of functional groups at the nanometre length scale. Here, functional peaks have been mapped across individual multi-walled CNTs with low-dose, monochromated electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). Density functional theory simulations show that the EELS features are consistent with oxygenated functional groups, most likely carboxyl moieties.
Databáze: MEDLINE