Formation of C60 fullerene-bonded-CNTs using radio frequency plasma

Shengxia Duan; Xia Liu; Yanan Wang; Dadong Shao; Yuedong Meng; Tasawar Hayat; Ahmed Alsaedi; Jiaxing Li

doi:10.1039/C7RA01530E

Formation of C₆₀ fullerene-bonded-CNTs using radio frequency plasma†

Shengxia Duan,^ab Xia Liu,^ab Yanan Wang,^ab Dadong Shao,^a Yuedong Meng,^a Tasawar Hayat,^de Ahmed Alsaedi^d and Jiaxing Li

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^a Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1126, Hefei 230031, P. R. China
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^b University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P. R. China

^c Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, P. R. China

^d NAAM Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

^e Department of Mathematics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan

Abstract

C₆₀ fullerene-bonded-CNTs (CNBs) were successfully synthesized by radio frequency plasma (RF plasma) treatment for the first time. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and Raman spectroscopy were used to confirm the formation of the CNB structure. A possible mechanism was also proposed to explain the formation of CNBs. This RF plasma treatment may inspire a novel method to potentially overcome the synthetic difficulty of CNBs.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7RA01530E
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 06 Feb 2017
Accepted: 29 Mar 2017
First published: 12 Apr 2017
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RSC Adv., 2017,7, 21124-21127

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S. Duan, X. Liu, Y. Wang, D. Shao, Y. Meng, T. Hayat, A. Alsaedi and J. Li, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 21124 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA01530E

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