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    This document discusses carbon nanotubes, including their discovery and properties. Carbon nanotubes are hexagonally shaped tubes made of carbon atoms that have been rolled into tubes. They were first discovered in 1991 by Sumio Iijima in the soot of arc-evaporated graphite electrodes. Carbon nanotubes have extraordinary strength and unique electrical properties, making them potentially useful in many applications. The document goes on to describe different types of carbon nanotubes and their potential applications.

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    This document discusses carbon nanotubes, including their discovery and properties. Carbon nanotubes are hexagonally shaped tubes made of carbon atoms that have been rolled into tubes. They were first discovered in 1991 by Sumio Iijima in the soot of arc-evaporated graphite electrodes. Carbon nanotubes have extraordinary strength and unique electrical properties, making them potentially useful in many applications. The document goes on to describe different types of carbon nanotubes and their potential applications.

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    * EEE514

    CARBON NANOTUBES,
    INORGANIC NANOWIRES
    AND FUNCTIONALIZATION

    Dr. Anita S. Ethiraj


    Associate Professor
    *CONTENTS
    * WHAT IS A CARBON NANOTUBE?
    * DISCOVERY OF CARBON NANOTUBES
    * TYPES OF CARBON NANOTUBES
    * PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOTUBES
    * PREPARATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES
    * PROBLEMS RELATED TO CARBON NANOTUBES
    * POTENTIAL APPLICATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES
    * FUNCTIONALIZATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES
    * IMPORTANT CARBON BASED MATERIALS
    * FULLERENE
    * GRAPHENE
    * NANODIAMOND
    * INORGANIC NANOSTRUCTURES
    WHAT IS A CARBON NANOTUBES ?
    * A Carbon Nanotube is a tube-shaped material, made of carbon, having a
    diameter measuring on the nanometer scale.
    * Nanotubes are members of the fullerene structural family.
    * Fullerenes are a class of allotropes of carbon which are graphene sheets
    rolled into tubes or spheres. Buckminsterfullerene C60, also known as the
    buckyball, is the smallest member of the fullerene family.

    Resemblance
    * Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon.
    * Allotropes: Different forms of the same element. Due to different
    bonding arrangements between atoms result in different
    structures with different chemical and physical properties.

    *Their name is derived from their long, hollow structure with the
    walls formed by one atom thick sheets of carbon, called graphene.

    *These cylindrical carbon molecules have interesting properties


    that make them potentially useful in many applications in
    nanotechnology, electronics, optics and other fields of materials
    science, as well as potential uses in architectural fields. They
    exhibit extraordinary strength and unique electrical properties,
    and are efficient conductors of heat.
    * Carbon nanotubes are hexagonally shaped arrangements of carbon
    atoms that have been rolled into tubes. These tiny straw-like cylinders of
    pure carbon have useful electrical properties.
    HISTORY OF CARBON NANOTUBES
    *1952 Radushkevich and Lukyanovich publish a paper in the Soviet
    Journal of Physical Chemistry showing hollow graphitic carbon
    fibers that are 50 nanometers in diameter.
    * 1970 Morinobu Endo- First carbon filaments of nanometer
    dimensions as a part of his Ph.D Studies at the University of
    Orleans in France. He used vapor-growth technique for growing
    carbon technique of about 7 nm in diameter . Because filaments
    were not recognized as nanotubes
    *1979 John Abrahamson presented evidence of carbon nanotubes at
    the 14th Biennial Conference of Carbon at Pennsylvania State
    University.
    *1981 A group of Soviet scientists published the results of chemical
    and structural characterization of carbon nanoparticles produced
    by a thermocatalytical disproportionation of carbon monoxide.
    HISTORY OF CARBON NANOTUBES
    *1985, a molecule called buckminsterfullerene was discovered
    by a group of researchers at Rice University. This molecule
    consisted of 60 carbon atoms in sp2 hybridized bonds arranged
    in a surprisingly symmetric fashion. The Nobel Prize was
    awarded to Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, and Harry Kroto for
    this discovery.
    * 1991, Discovery of multiwall carbon nanotubes by S. Iijima
    * 1993, Discovery of single wall nanotubes by S. Iijima and T
    Ichihashi
    * 1998, Synthesis of Nanotube peapods by B. W. Smith, M.
    Monthioux, and D. E. Luzzi
    * In 2000, Professor Tang Zikang and Wang Ning created the
    smallest, stable carbon nanotubes in the world at just 0.4nm in
    diameter .
    Discovery of Carbon Nanotubes
     In 1991, carbon nanotubes
    were discovered in the soot
    during the arc-evaporation
    synthesis of fullerenes. The
    central core of the cathodic
    deposit contained a variety of
    closed graphitic structures
    including nanoparticles and
    nanotubes.

    Sumio Iijima  Their morphology is considered


    equivalent to a graphene sheet
    rolled into a seamless tube
    capped on both ends

    High resolution TEM Image of a Nanotube Cap

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