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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 344, Issue 1-2, Pages 18-22Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2614(01)00780-1
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A purification process of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) combining both the acid treatment to remove metal particles and the gas-phase purification to remove impurity carbon particles has been developed. Acid solution of 3 M HCl was used to remove catalyst metal particles out of the arc-discharge grown SNNWs. Thermal oxidation method using H2S-O-2 gas mixture was followed to preferentially remove carbon particles. Hydrogen sulfide played a role of enhancing the removal of carbon particles as well as suppressing the oxidation of nanotubes. After the combined liquid-gas cleaning process. we achieved carbon nanotubes purity of >95% with yield of 20-50%. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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