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CrystEngComm

Twinned TATB nanobelts: synthesis, characterization, and formation mechanism

Bing Huang,ab   Minhua Cao,*ab   Xinglong Wu,d   Fude Nie,c   Hui Huang*c  and  Changwen Hu*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Department of Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China
E-mail: caomh@bit.edu.cn, cwhu@bit.edu.cn.
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b State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China

c Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang, P. R. China
E-mail: huanghui@caep.ac.cn
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d Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Abstract

Twinned TATB nanobelts were directly synthesized using a water/AOT/toluene microemulsion system. Here, urea has been used as an aminating agent, which has been proven to play an important role in the formation of such a nanostructure. X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) were used to characterize the composition of the as-synthesized samples. Electron microscopic studies indicated that the morphology and size of the TATB nanobelts can be readily tuned by varying experimental parameters. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and selected area electron diffraction (SAED) studies showed that the TATB nanobelts possess mirror symmetry, each of which grow along the [001] direction. A possible mechanism was also proposed to account for the growth of these twinned TATB nanobelts prepared by the microemulsion system.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CE05599B
Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 May 2011
Accepted
26 Jul 2011
First published
06 Sep 2011

CrystEngComm, 2011,13, 6658-6664

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Twinned TATB nanobelts: synthesis, characterization, and formation mechanism

B. Huang, M. Cao, X. Wu, F. Nie, H. Huang and C. Hu, CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 6658 DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05599B

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