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Direct Observation of the Strong Interaction Between Carbon Nanotubes and Quartz Substrate

Show Author's Information Lei Ding1,  Weiwei Zhou1,  Thomas P. McNicholas1,  Jinyong Wang2,  Haibin Chu2,  Yan Li2,  Jie Liu1( )
Department of Chemistry Duke UniversityDurham, North Carolina 27708 USA
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices National Laboratory of Rare Earth Material Chemistry and Application College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking UniversityBeijing 100871 China
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Raman spectroscopy, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), Single-walled carbon nanotube, quartz wafer, G-band "up-shift"
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Ding L, Zhou W, McNicholas TP, et al. Direct Observation of the Strong Interaction Between Carbon Nanotubes and Quartz Substrate. Nano Research, 2009, 2(11): 903-910. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-009-9093-9
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We present a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method for the growth of uniform single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) arrays on a stable temperature (ST)-cut single crystal quartz substrate using a mixture of methanol and ethanol as carbon source. It is found that introducing methanol during the growth can improve the density and the length of the well-aligned SWNTs in the arrays as well as increase the SWNT/quartz interaction. Obvious "up-shifts" of G-band frequencies in the Raman spectra have been found for the aligned SWNTs. A well-designed control experiment shows that the G-band "up-shifts" originate from the strong interaction between SWNTs and the quartz substrate. It is believed that exploring this interaction will help to elucidate the growth mechanism; ultimately, this will help realize the promise of controlling the chirality of SWNTs.


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Direct Observation of the Strong Interaction Between Carbon Nanotubes and Quartz Substrate

Show Author's information Lei Ding1, Weiwei Zhou1, Thomas P. McNicholas1, Jinyong Wang2, Haibin Chu2, Yan Li2, Jie Liu1( )
Department of Chemistry Duke UniversityDurham, North Carolina 27708 USA
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices National Laboratory of Rare Earth Material Chemistry and Application College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking UniversityBeijing 100871 China

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We present a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method for the growth of uniform single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) arrays on a stable temperature (ST)-cut single crystal quartz substrate using a mixture of methanol and ethanol as carbon source. It is found that introducing methanol during the growth can improve the density and the length of the well-aligned SWNTs in the arrays as well as increase the SWNT/quartz interaction. Obvious "up-shifts" of G-band frequencies in the Raman spectra have been found for the aligned SWNTs. A well-designed control experiment shows that the G-band "up-shifts" originate from the strong interaction between SWNTs and the quartz substrate. It is believed that exploring this interaction will help to elucidate the growth mechanism; ultimately, this will help realize the promise of controlling the chirality of SWNTs.

Keywords: Raman spectroscopy, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), Single-walled carbon nanotube, quartz wafer, G-band "up-shift"

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Received: 09 September 2009
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Published: 11 November 2009
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The work is supported in part by a grant from Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) (N00173-04-1-G902) and Office of Naval Research (ONR) (N00014-09-1-0163). Y. L. acknowledges financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Nos. 50772002 and 90406018) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Nos. 2006CB932403, 2007CB936202, and 2006CB932701) of China.

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