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Chemical Communications

Preferential elimination of thin single-walled carbon nanotubes by iron etching†

Fang Yu,ab   Haiqing Zhou,ac   Huaichao Yang,ac   Minjiang Chen,ac   Gang Wangac  and  Lianfeng Sun*a  

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a National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
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b Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

c Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Abstract

We report that iron particles-assisted etching can be applied to selectively remove single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with diameters smaller than 1.2 nm via the catalytic hydrogenation of carbon in a film of SWNTs, which is proven by a Raman spectroscopy-based technique.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC16865G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Nov 2011
Accepted
14 Nov 2011
First published
14 Nov 2011

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 1042-1044

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Preferential elimination of thin single-walled carbon nanotubes by iron etching

F. Yu, H. Zhou, H. Yang, M. Chen, G. Wang and L. Sun, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 1042 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC16865G

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