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Title Hydrogen in chemical vapour deposited carbon nanotubes : an active site for functionalization
 
Names TITUS, E
CABRAL, G
MADALENO, JC
COELHO, MC
BABU, PR
BLAU, WJ
MISRA, DS
GRACIO, J
Date Issued 2008 (iso8601)
Abstract The presence of hydrogen in as-grown carbon nanotubes (CNTs) synthesized by microwave plasma (MP) chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technique is demonstrated. Our results showed that the MPCVD, as-grown CNTs were hydrogenated consisting of C-H bonds; whereas, the tubes synthesized by arc discharge consisted of non-hydrogenated multi-walled CNTs. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and micro-Raman spectroscopy techniques were used to detect C-H bonding in the as-grown CNTs. The effective functionalization of as-grown hydrogenated CNTs grown using a microwave CVD process is first time demonstrated by laser assisted CVD process. It was found that the laser-assisted CVD process resulted in the termination of hydrogen and the oxidation of as-grown CNT structure leading to the carboxylic group attachment. The FTIR results show the presence of -OH and C=O bonds in the functionalized samples. However, the non-hydrogenated CNTs could not be effectively functionalized by the same process, probably due to the fact that it did not contain active sites pre-requisite for functionalization, as did the CVD grown samples. The functionalization of CVD grown tubes is believed to take place at the 'active' hydrogen-terminated sites on the CNT surfaces.
Genre Article; Proceedings Paper
Topic Thin Hydrocarbon Films
Identifier JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY,8(8)4017-4022