[HTML][HTML] Transition metal impurities in carbon-based materials: Pitfalls, artifacts and deleterious effects

W Kiciński, S Dyjak - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
From carbides in steel to cobalt–carbon covalent bonds in vitamin B 12, transition metal (TM)–
carbon interactions play a critical role in so many aspects of human life that we rarely realize …

Nanostructured transparent conductive films: Fabrication, characterization and applications

L He, SC Tjong - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Commercial indium tin oxide (ITO) has several drawbacks for optoelectronic applications
such as high cost due to indium scarcity and high temperature deposition process …

Synthesis of carbon nanomaterials from rice husk via microwave oven

M Asnawi, S Azhari, MN Hamidon… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave oven was utilized to fabricate carbon nanostructure, specifically CNTs, from
waste RH powders. It has been shown that the use of carbon source, catalyst, and …

Do Nickel and Iron catalyst nanoparticles affect the mechanical strength of carbon nanotubes?

A Ostadhossein, K Yoon, ACT van Duin, JW Seo… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2018 - Elsevier
The growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is strongly mediated by the interaction between
Carbon atoms and catalyst nanoparticles, in particular in processes like chemical vapor …

Templated direct growth of ultra-thin double-walled carbon nanotubes

L Shi, J Wei, K Yanagi, T Saito, K Cao, U Kaiser… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) combined the advantages of multi-walled (MW-
) and single-walled (SW-) CNTs can be obtained by transforming the precursors (eg …

Faradaic and capacitive components of the CNT electrochemical responses

TF Otero, JG Martinez, K Asaka - Frontiers in Materials, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The nature of the electrochemical responses from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), capacitive
(physical), or Faradaic (chemical, also named p-doping or n-doping) remain controversial. In …

Protecting carbon nanotubes from oxidation for selective carbon impurity elimination

N Berrada, A Desforges, C Bellouard… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Purity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is essential to avoid a dramatic decrease in their
performances. In addition to metallic impurities, carbonaceous impurities have been shown …

Dramatic enhancement of double-walled carbon nanotube quality through a one-pot tunable purification method

A Desforges, AV Bridi, J Kadok, E Flahaut… - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
The purification process we propose is a one-pot gas-phase treatment; the CNT powder is
simply submitted to a chlorine/oxygen atmosphere at around 1000° C for 2 h. By varying the …

Oxidative stress of carbon nanotubes on proteins is mediated by metals originating from the catalyst remains

A Hirano, M Wada, T Tanaka, H Kataura - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterials introduced into biological systems are immediately coated by proteins in
vivo. They induce oxidative stress on adsorbed proteins and hence alter the protein …

Pressure-tailored synthesis of confined linear carbon chains

X Li, Y Zhang, Y Wu, L Shi - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
High-temperature annealing of carbon nanotubes in both vacuum and in inert gas has been
approved to yield linear carbon chains (LCCs) inside the carbon nanotubes. How the …