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Properties and Applications of Doped Carbon Nanotubes

  • Antonio G. Souza Filho
  • Mauricio TerronesEmail author
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Abstract

Carbon nanotubes are very stable systems having a considerable chemical inertness due to the strong sp 2 hybridized covalent carbon bonds on their surface. However, various applications of carbon nanotubes require their doping or ­chemical modification through the addition of atoms and/or molecules (covalently or ­noncovalently) in order to alter their physicochemical properties. In this chapter we review the importance of different types of doping in carbon nanotubes (single, double, and multiwalled). Regarding the location of the dopant species within the nanotubes, it is possible to classify the doping process as being exohedral ­(intercalation), endohedral (filling), and in-plane (replacing carbon atoms). The effects of doping on the electronic, vibrational, chemical, magnetic, and mechanical properties are discussed by analyzing the experimental results obtained with different spectroscopic techni­ques such as resonant Raman, X-ray photoelectron (XP), electron energy loss, and others. Applications of doped-carbon nanotubes are also summarized.

Keywords

Carbon Nanotubes Atomic Transfer Radical Polymerization Atomic Transfer Radical Polymerization Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Radial Breathing Mode 
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Acknowledgments

We are indebted to P.M. Ajayan, J.C. Charlier, A. Jorio, V. Meunier, B.G. Sumpter, A.M. Rao, M.S. Dresselhaus, M. Endo, R. Saito, T. Hayashi. Y.A. Kim, H. Muramatsu, H. Terrones, F. López-Urías, E. Muñoz-Sandoval, E. Cruz-Silva, J.M. Romo-Herrera, J.A. Rodríguez-Manzo, A. Zamudio, X. Blase, D. Golberg, R. Kamalakaran, N. Grobert, Ph. Redlich, D.L. Carroll, R. Czerw, A.K. Cheetham, M. Rühle, Y. Bando, K. McGuire, P.L. Gai, A.L. Elías, J.P. Laclette, J.C. Carrero-Sánchez, B. Fragneaud, M. De Honor, A. González-Montiel, J.Y. Cavallié, Karine Masenelli-Varlot, F. Villalpando-Páez, P. Corio, S.B. Fagan, J. Mendes Filho, and L. Noyola-Cherpitel for stimulating discussions and valuable assistance in some of the works reviewed here. MT is grateful to CONACYT-México [45772 (MT), 41464-Inter American Collaboration (MT), 2004-01-013/SALUD-CONACYT (MT), PUE-2004-CO2-9 Fondo Mixto de Puebla (MT), and the MIT-CONACYT collaboration project] for financial support. AGSF acknowledges the support from Brazilian agencies FUNCAP (grant 985/03), CNPq (grants 556549/2005-8, 475329/2006-6, 307417/2004-2), Rede Nacional de Pesquisa em Nanotubos de Carbono, Rede Nacional de Nanobiotecnologia e sistemas nanoestruturados, Instituto do Milênio de Nanotecnologia, and Instituto do Milênio de Materiais Complexos (CNPq/MCT-Brazil) Finally, AGSF and MT acknowledge the bilateral CNPq-CONACYT cooperation funding under grants CNPq 490283/2007-1 and CONACYT entitled “Synthesis and characterization of doped carbon nanotubes: experiments and theory”.

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  1. 1.Departamento de FísicaUniversidade Federal do Ceará, C.P. 6030Fortaleza-CE
  2. 2.Laboratory for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research LINAN and Advanced Materials DepartmentIPICyTSan Luis PotosiMexico

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