C-60 Fullerene Decoration of Carbon Nanotubes

VA Demin and VD Blank and AR Karaeva and BA Kulnitskiy and VZ Mordkovich and YN Parkhomenko and IA Perezhogin and MY Popov and EA Skryleva and SA Urvanov and LA Chernozatonskii, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS, 123, 985-990 (2016).

DOI: 10.1134/S1063776116130021

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 C-60 molecule to a defect on the nanotube surface.

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