Carbon nanotube MWCNT

Within the huge amount of papers deahng with carbon nanotubes (CNTs or, simply NTs) that appeared in the literature since the seminal work by lijima [151] and exponentially increased in the following decades [152,153], porphyrin-decorated NT represent an important part, both with the single-walled (SWCNTs) and multiwalled (MWCNTs) carbon nanotube type. 

Poor compatibility of carbon nanotubes with many polymer binders, organic and aqueous solutions considerably restrict their applieation as nanofillers. Therefore, there are many papers (e.g., see [1-3] and eited references) devoted to the research of capabilities of considerable enhancement of interaction of single-wall (SWCNT) and multi-wall (MWCNT) carbon nanotubes surface with polymer macromolecules. 

Among the several known types of carbon fibres the discussion in this chapter is limited to the electric arc grown multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) as well as single-walled ones (SWCNTs). For MWCNT we restrict the discussion to the idealised coaxial cylinder model. For other models and other shapes we refer to the literature [1-6],... 

Studies on the electronic structure of carbon nanotube (CNT) is of much importance toward its efficient utilisation in electronic devices. It is well known that the early prediction of its peculiar electronic structure [1-3] right after the lijima s observation of multi-walled CNT (MWCNT) [4] seems to have actually triggered the subsequent and explosive series of experimental researches of CNT. In that prediction, alternative appearance of metallic and semiconductive nature in CNT depending on the combination of diameter and pitch or, more specifically, chiral vector of CNT expressed by two kinds of non-negative integers (a, b) as described later (see Fig. 1). 

Pacurari, M. et al. (2008) Oxidative and molecular interactions of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) in normal and malignant human mesothelial cells. Nanotoxicology, 2 (3), 155-170. 

Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have been synthesized by catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) of ethylene on several mesoporous aluminosilicates impregnated with iron. The aluminosilicates were synthesized by sol-gel method optimizing the Si/Al ratios from 6 to 80. The catalysts are characterized by nitrogen adsorption, X-ray diffraction, 27A1 NMR, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and infrared. The MWCNTs are characterized by TGA and transmission and scanning electron microscope. 

The aluminum is incorporated in a tetrahedral way into the mesoporous structure, given place to Bronsted acidic sites which are corroborated by FTIR using pyridine as probe molecule. The presence of aluminum reduces the quantity of amorphous carbon produced in the synthesis of carbon nanotubes which does not happen for mesoporous silica impregnated only with iron. It was observed a decrease in thermal stability of MWCNTs due to the presence of more metal particles which help to their earlier oxidation process. 

J.H.T. Luong, S. Hrapovic, and D. Wang, Multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) based electrochemical biosensors for mediatorless detection of putresdne. Electroanalysis 17, 47—53 (2005). 

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Fig. 9.20 Luminescent carbon nanotubes (a) Cy3 labeled antisense myc-modified SWCNTs (b) quantum dots-modifed MWCNTs (With permission from American Scientific publisher and...

SWCNT, single-walled carbon nanotube MWCNT, multiwalled carbon nanotube. 

CNTs may consist of just one layer (i.e. single-walled carbon nanotubes, SWCNTs), two layers (DWCNTs) or many layers (MWCNTs) and per definition exhibit diameters in the range of 0.7 < d < 2 nm, 1 < d < 3 nm, and 1. 4 < d < 150 nm, respectively. The length of CNTs depends on the synthesis technique used (Section 1.1.4) and can vary from a few microns to a current world record of a few cm [16]. This amounts to aspect ratios (i.e. length/diameter) of up to 107, which are considerably larger than those of high-performance polyethylene (PE, Dyneema). The aspect ratio is a crucial parameter, since it affects, for example, the electrical and mechanical properties of CNT-containing nanocomposites. 

D. H. Zhang, M. A. Kandadai, J. Cech, S. Roth, S. A. Curran, Poly(L-lactide) (PLLA)/multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) composite Characterization and biocompatibility evaluation, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, pp. 12910-12915, 2006. 

Carbon nanotubes could be also used in a format of disc. A comparison smdy showed that the double-disk system (comprising two stacked disks with 60 mg of CNTs) exhibited extraction capabilities that were comparable to those of a commercial Cig disk with 500 mg sorbent for nonpolar or moderately polar compounds. Moreover, the former system was more powerful than the latter for extracting polar analytes. The triple-layered CNTs disk system showed good extraction efficiency when the sample volume was up to 3,000 mL. Katsumata et al. [136] obtained very high enrichment factor for preconcentration of atrazine and simazine (3,900 and 4,000, respectively, for 200 mL of sample solution when only 30 mg of MWCNTs was used in the format of disk. 

Fig. 3 Structure of fullerenes Cso, C70, Cso and single-wall carbon nanotube. The figures were taken with permission of Prof. C. Dekker from the image gallery found at http //online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/qhalLc98/dekker/. Transmission electron microscopy image of multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) treated with iodinated and platinate DNA. The figure was taken from [24] with kind permission from Prof. P. Sadler...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), notably single-walled (SWCNTs) or multi-walled (MWCNTs), have continued to attract immense research interests in electroanalytical chemistry because of their ability to exhibit unusual but excellent electrical conductivity and mechanical properties. 

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George and Bhowmick [147] have also studied the influence of the polarity of EVA (40, 50, 60, and 70% vinyl acetate content) and the nature of the nanofiller [expanded graphite (EG), multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), and CNFs] on the mechanical properties of EVA/carbon nanofiller nanocomposites. They pointed out that the enhancement in mechanical properties with the addition of various... 

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