A family of carbon-based nanocomposite tubular structures created by in situ electron beam irradiation.

ACS Nano

Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.

Published: May 2012

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  • A new method has been developed for creating curling tubular nanostructures from carbon membranes using electron beam irradiation in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) setting.
  • This technique allows for the production of multiwall tubes with extended irradiation time and can integrate various functional nanomaterials like nanocrystals and nanowires.
  • The resulting composite tubular structures may have diverse applications in fields such as fluid transportation, encapsulation, and nanometer-scale capillarity.

Article Abstract

We report a unique approach for the fabrication of a family of curling tubular nanostructures rapidly created by a rolling up of carbon membranes under in situ TEM electron beam irradiation. Multiwall tubes can also be created if irradiation by electron beam is performed long enough. This general approach can be extended to curve the conductive carbon film loaded with various functional nanomaterials, such as nanocrystals, nanorods, nanowires, and nanosheets, providing a unique strategy to make composite tubular structures and composite materials by a combination of desired optical, electronic, and magnetic properties, which could find potential applications, including fluid transportation, encapsulation, and capillarity on the nanometer scale.

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