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Carbon Nanotubes Peer-reviewed Journals

Carbon can bond in different ways to construct structures with completely different properties. The sp2 hybridization of carbon builds a layered construction with weak out-of-plane bonding of the van der Waals form and strong in-plane bounds. A few to a few tens of concentric cylinders with the regular periodic interlayer spacing locate around ordinary central hollow and made MWCNTs. The real-space analysis of multiwall nanotube images has shown a range of interlayer spacing (0.34 to 0.39 nm). Depending on the number of layers, the inner diameter of MWCNTs diverges from 0.4 nm up to a few nanometers and outer diameter varies characteristically from 2 nm up to 20 to 30 nm. Both tips of MWCNT usually have closed and the ends are capped by dome-shaped half-fullerene molecules (pentagonal defects), and axial size differs from 1 μm up to a few centimeter. The role of the half-fullerene molecules (pentagonal ring defect) is to help in closing of the tube at the two ends.

Last Updated on: Jul 03, 2024

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