ArticleControllable Growth of (n, n −1) Family of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

Add time:08/28/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

SummarySemiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with controlled chirality (n, m) and band gaps are expected to create a new era of electronics. Here, we report a rational design to enable SWNTs’ near-equilibrium nucleation and then grow a new family of semiconducting SWNTs: (n, n − 1) carbon nanotubes. No metallic SWNTs were observed in ∼100 samples by reflection optical spectral measurements. Combined with catalyst controlling, we have successfully synthesized both large-diameter (>2 nm) (n, n − 1) SWNTs and single-chirality (10, 9) SWNTs with abundances of 88% and >80%, respectively. Theoretical analysis indicates that the chirality of (n, n) tubes tends to change to (n, n − 1) by kinetically incorporating an energetically preferred pentagon-heptagon pair in the tube wall. This strategy opens up a new route for the growth of SWNT families beyond catalyst design.

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