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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) and carbon nitride films are synthesized by a direct current (dc) arc discharge at slightly reduced pressure and by an inductively coupled r.f. plasma (ICP) at atmospheric pressure, respectively. By treatment with nitric acid SWNT are purified from by-products and characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), and Raman spectroscopy. ICP allows the deposition of carbon nitride films on steel substrate. The deposition of the films creates a relatively strong radial symmetric profile. The structure of the films are rather independent of the distance between substrate and plasma. Raman, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy are used for analyzing the carbon nitride materials.
Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) have been produced in an electric arc discharge by using a graphite rod as anode which is filled with a powder mixture of graphite and metallic catalysts like nickel and yttrium. The soot material containing approximately a third of SWNT was collected from the cathode region as a soft, voluminous material. The main by-products in this process are amorphous carbon and graphitic nanoparticles which have to be removed by an appropriate purification process. The as-produced soot material was purified by gas phase oxidation in air at 355 °C. The oxidation of amorphous carbon in air is advantageous against wet chemical methods because it is better controllable. Thermogravimetric analysis and electron microscopy were used to investigate the oxidation behavior of the different kinds of carbon. Oxidation of SWNT and amorphous carbon occurs simultaneously even at moderate temperatures, whereas amorphous carbon is more rapidly oxidized than SWNT. For optimizing the purification procedure by gas phase oxidation, kinetic studies were used to determine the oxidation time for each component in the soot at a given temperature. So it is possible to remove the amorphous carbon quantitatively with minimal losses of SWNT. But it was found that graphitic nanoparticles have the highest stability against oxidation and could therefore not be quantitatively removed by this method without the complete destruction of SWNT. Therefore, the electric arc discharge process has to be a controlled process for minimum production of graphitic nanoparticles to obtain a material with a high content of SWNT.