Chirality pure carbon nanotubes: Growth, sorting, and characterization

F Yang, M Wang, D Zhang, J Yang, M Zheng… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have been attracting tremendous attention
owing to their structure (chirality) dependent outstanding properties, which endow them with …

Horizontal single-walled carbon nanotube arrays: Controlled synthesis, characterizations, and applications

M He, S Zhang, J Zhang - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) emerge as a promising material to advance
carbon nanoelectronics. However, synthesizing or assembling pure metallic/semiconducting …

Why carbon nanotubes grow

LP Ding, B McLean, Z Xu, X Kong… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite three decades of intense research efforts, the most fundamental question “why do
carbon nanotubes grow?” remains unanswered. In fact, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) should …

Growth modes of single-walled carbon nanotubes on catalysts

F Yang, H Zhao, R Li, Q Liu, X Zhang, X Bai… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Understanding the growth mechanism of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and
achieving selective growth requires insights into the catalyst structure-function relationship …

Atomic-scale evidence of catalyst evolution for the structure-controlled growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes

X Zhao, S Sun, F Yang, Y Li - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Knowing how nanomaterials nucleate and dynamically evolve at the nanoscale
is crucial to understanding and in turn controlling the structure and properties of a wide …

Upcycling plastic waste into syngas by staged chemical loo** gasification with modified Fe-based oxygen carriers

S Wu, Z Ren, Q Hu, D Yao, H Yang - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
A novel staged approach, termed staged chemical loo** gasification (SCLG) was
proposed in this work, for the efficient upcycling of plastic waste into H 2-rich syngas with …

Entropy-driven stability of chiral single-walled carbon nanotubes

Y Magnin, H Amara, F Ducastelle, A Loiseau… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Single-walled carbon nanotubes are hollow cylinders that can grow centimeters long via
carbon incorporation at the interface with a catalyst. They display semiconducting or metallic …

Designing catalysts for chirality‐selective synthesis of single‐walled carbon nanotubes: past success and future opportunity

M He, S Zhang, Q Wu, H Xue, B **n, D Wang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A major obstacle for the applications of single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in
electronic devices is their structural diversity, ending in SWNTs with diverse electrical …

Symmetrical growth of carbon nanotube arrays on FeSiAl micro-flake for enhancement of lithium-ion battery capacity

X Yang, L Wu, J Hou, B Meng, R Ali, Y Liu, X Jian - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
The efficient and economic growth of high-purity carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays remains a
great challenge due to the synthetic complexity and difficulty of high-precision control …

Residence time effect on single-walled carbon nanotube synthesis in an aerosol CVD reactor

IV Novikov, EM Khabushev, DV Krasnikov… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
We examine an effect of residence time on the growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes
(SWCNTs) in an aerosol (floating catalyst) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process using …