High-yield bamboo-shaped carbon nanotubes from cresol for electrochemical application

Ruitao Lv; Lin Zou; Xuchun Gui; Feiyu Kang; Yanqiu Zhu; Hongwei Zhu; Jinquan Wei; Jialin Gu; Kunlin Wang; Dehai Wu

doi:10.1039/B800233A

High-yield bamboo-shaped carbon nanotubes from cresol for electrochemical application†

Ruitao Lv,^a Lin Zou,^a Xuchun Gui,^b Feiyu Kang,*^a Yanqiu Zhu,^c Hongwei Zhu,^d Jinquan Wei,^b Jialin Gu,^a Kunlin Wang^b and Dehai Wu^b

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^a Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
E-mail: fykang@tsinghua.edu.cn
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^b Department of Mechanical Engineering and Key Laboratory for Advanced Manufacturing by Materials Processing Technology of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, China

^c Advanced Materials, School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK

^d Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

Abstract

High-yield bamboo-shaped carbon nanotubes (BCNTs) have been produced by using cresol as the precursor, for the first time and there are almost no straight CNTs or amorphous carbon found in the product: the role of cresol in promoting the growth of BCNTs is discussed; improved cycle stability and electric conductivity of the BCNTs as an anode additive in a lithium ion battery are achieved.

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High-yield bamboo-shaped carbon nanotubes from cresol for electrochemical application†

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