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Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Jun 28;50(51):6744-7. doi: 10.1039/c4cc02026j.

Mapping functional groups on oxidised multi-walled carbon nanotubes at the nanometre scale.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

A E Goode, N D M Hine, S Chen, S D Bergin, M S P Shaffer, M P Ryan, P D Haynes, A E Porter, D W McComb

Affiliations

  1. Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London, UK. [email protected].

PMID: 24827593 DOI: 10.1039/c4cc02026j

Abstract

Despite voluminous research on the acid oxidation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), there is a distinct lack of experimental results showing distributions of functional groups at the nanometre length scale. Here, functional peaks have been mapped across individual multi-walled CNTs with low-dose, monochromated electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). Density functional theory simulations show that the EELS features are consistent with oxygenated functional groups, most likely carboxyl moieties.

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