Carbon nanowire made of a long linear carbon chain inserted inside a multiwalled carbon nanotube

Xinluo Zhao; Yoshinori Ando; Yi Liu; Makoto Jinno; Tomoko Suzuki

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.187401

Carbon nanowire made of a long linear carbon chain inserted inside a multiwalled carbon nanotube

Phys Rev Lett. 2003 May 9;90(18):187401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.187401. Epub 2003 May 6.

Authors

Xinluo Zhao¹, Yoshinori Ando, Yi Liu, Makoto Jinno, Tomoko Suzuki

Affiliation

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Meijo University, Nagoya 468-8502, Japan.

PMID: 12786041
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.187401

Abstract

A new type of one-dimensional (1D) carbon structure, carbon nanowires (CNWs), was discovered in the cathode deposits prepared by hydrogen arc discharge evaporation of carbon rods. Observation of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) indicates that a CNW consists of a multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) with a long 1D linear carbon chain (C chain) inserted into its innermost tube of 0.7 nm in diameter. The characteristic Raman peaks of CNWs appeared at around 1850 cm(-1). Raman scattering and HRTEM studies show the formation of a long linear C chain involving more than 100 carbon atoms inside a MWNT. This novel 1D carbon allotrope has potential applications in nanoelectronics, nanomechanics, and nanomaterials.