Steaming multiwalled carbon nanotubes via acid vapour for controllable nanoengineering and the fabrication of carbon nanoflutes

Jun Ming; Yingqiang Wu; Yancun Yu; Fengyu Zhao

doi:10.1039/c1cc10525f

Steaming multiwalled carbon nanotubes via acid vapour for controllable nanoengineering and the fabrication of carbon nanoflutes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 May 14;47(18):5223-5. doi: 10.1039/c1cc10525f. Epub 2011 Mar 22.

Authors

Jun Ming¹, Yingqiang Wu, Yancun Yu, Fengyu Zhao

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, PR China.

PMID: 21423993
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc10525f

Abstract

A new concept of steaming multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) via acid vapour was presented for controllable nanoengineering of the MWCNTs. This method is more simple, effective, precisely-controllable and environmentally-friendly compared to traditional ones. Moreover, novel porous carbon nanotubes, named carbon nanoflutes, were fabricated based on this strategy.