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Original Articles

Multiwalled Nanotubes: Their Formation by Irradiating Graphite with High Doses of Electrons

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Pages 285-294 | Received 09 May 2003, Accepted 26 Jun 2003, Published online: 06 Feb 2007
 

Abstract

We report the production of carbon nanotubes by high dose of electron irradiation. The irradiation was performed with a 2 MeV Van de Graaff accelerator, while the irradiation conditions were the following: voltage 1.3 MeV, current 5 µA, dose rate 25 kGy/min, and total dosage 1000 kGy. The samples were analyzed in a high‐resolution transmission electron microscope. The main features observed on the samples, were huge nanotubes of several nanometer long and few nanometer wide, which are capped at one end. It is good to point out, that at this level of irradiation, we were not able to find either onion‐like or particle structures throughout the material, as it is usual in similar hexagonal structures. This behavior could be attributed to the level of irradiation used to create the nanotubes under investigation.

Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge E. Aparicio, F. Ruiz, M. Saenz, and G. Vilchis from CCMC–UNAM, and Margarito Vázquez from IFUNAM for technical support. D. H. Galván acknowledges Conacyt under Grant No. 0080P‐E9506.

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