单壁碳纳米管也可以通过热等离子体法合成,该方法由Olivier Smiljanic于2000年在加拿大瓦伦尼斯的国家科学研究所(英语:Institut national de la recherche scientifique)首次发明。这种方法重现了电弧放电和激光烧蚀方法中普遍存在的条件,但使用含碳气体代替石墨蒸汽来提供必要的碳元素。这样做,单壁碳纳米管的生长效率更高,分解气体所消耗的能量可以比石墨蒸发少10倍。这个过程也可连续进行且成本较低。氩、乙烯和二茂铁的气态混合物加入微波等离子体炬中,在大气压等离子体的作用下雾化,形成强烈 "火焰"形态。“火焰”产生的烟雾中含有碳纳米管、金属和碳纳米粒子以及无定形碳。[9][10]
In addition to separation of semiconducting and metallic SWNTs, it is possible to sort SWNTs by length, diameter, and chirality. The highest resolution length sorting, with length variation of <10%, has thus far been achieved by size exclusion chromatography (SEC) of DNA-dispersed carbon nanotubes (DNA-SWNT).[67] SWNT diameter separation has been achieved by density-gradient ultracentrifugation (DGU)[68] using surfactant-dispersed SWNTs and by ion-exchange chromatography (IEC) for DNA-SWNT.[69] Purification of individual chiralities has also been demonstrated with IEC of DNA-SWNT: specific short DNA oligomers can be used to isolate individual SWNT chiralities. Thus far, 12 chiralities have been isolated at purities ranging from 70% for (8,3) and (9,5) SWNTs to 90% for (6,5), (7,5) and (10,5)SWNTs.[70] Alternatively, carbon nanotubes have been successfully sorted by chirality using the aqueous two phase extraction method.[71][72][73] There have been successful efforts to integrate these purified nanotubes into devices, e. g. FETs.[74]
An alternative to separation is development of a selective growth of semiconducting or metallic CNTs. Recently, a new CVD recipe that involves a combination of ethanol and methanol gases and quartz substrates resulting in horizontally aligned arrays of 95–98% semiconducting nanotubes was announced.[75]
Nanotubes are usually grown on nanoparticles of magnetic metal (Fe, Co), which facilitates production of electronic (spintronic) devices. In particular, control of current through a field-effect transistor by magnetic field has been demonstrated in such a single-tube nanostructure.[76]
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