C60 fullerene decoration of carbon nanotubes


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Abstract

A new fully carbon nanocomposite material is synthesized by the immersion of carbon nanotubes in a fullerene solution in carbon disulfide. The presence of a dense layer of fullerene molecules on the outer nanotube surface is demonstrated by TEM and XPS. Fullerenes are redistributed on the nanotube surface during a long-term action of an electron beam, which points to the existence of a molecular bond between a nanotube and fullerenes. Theoretical calculations show that the formation of a fullerene shell begins with the attachment of one C60 molecule to a defect on the nanotube surface.

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V. A. Demin

Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics

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Russian Federation, ul. Kosygina 4, Moscow, 119334

V. D. Blank

Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials; National University of Science and Technology MISiS; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Email: victordemin88@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow, 142190; Leninskii pr. 4, Moscow, 119049; Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700

A. R. Karaeva

Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials

Email: victordemin88@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow, 142190

B. A. Kulnitskiy

Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Email: victordemin88@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow, 142190; Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700

V. Z. Mordkovich

Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Email: victordemin88@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow, 142190; Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700

Yu. N. Parkhomenko

National University of Science and Technology MISiS

Email: victordemin88@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Leninskii pr. 4, Moscow, 119049

I. A. Perezhogin

Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University); Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: victordemin88@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow, 142190; Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700; Moscow, 119991

M. Yu. Popov

Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials; National University of Science and Technology MISiS; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

Email: victordemin88@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow, 142190; Leninskii pr. 4, Moscow, 119049; Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700

E. A. Skryleva

National University of Science and Technology MISiS

Email: victordemin88@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Leninskii pr. 4, Moscow, 119049

S. A. Urvanov

Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials

Email: victordemin88@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow, 142190

L. A. Chernozatonskii

Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics; Research School for Chemistry and Technology of Polymer Materials

Email: victordemin88@gmail.com
Russian Federation, ul. Kosygina 4, Moscow, 119334; Moscow, 117997

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