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ABSTRACT
Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were purified and then characterized by nitrogen adsorption, scanning electron microscopy, and energy dispersion X-ray microanalysis. Infrared spectroscopy, Boehm titration, and thermal analysis in air and argon were used to estimate the effect of surface chemistry on the oxidation ability of MWCNTs. From macrokinetic experiments conducted at 450–503°C, the rate constants of MWCNTs oxidation and the parameters of the Arrhenius equation were determined. The oxidation intensity depends on the concentration and nature of the oxygen-containing surface groups. In fact, their thermal decomposition enhances the oxidation rate since frees the surface sites becoming additional active centers of the reaction.
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Funding
This work is funded by Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine [0111U006260]; Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine [0114U003554]; the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic for the Mobility of Students, Ph.D. Students, University Teachers, Researchers and Artists, SAIA Grant, n.o., in 2017 [20917]; the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic for the Mobility of Students, Ph.D. Students, University Teachers, Researchers and Artists, SAIA Grant, n.o., in 2015 [14511]; Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine [0116U002558].