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Innovative Approaches in Characterization of Carbon Nanotube

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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are promising modern nanostructured materials with extraordinary mechanical, chemical, and good thermal stability properties as well as high aspect ratio. These features make them useful materials in various applications. However, pristine CNTs tend to form aggregates and bundles making them difficult to use. Superficial modification/treatment of CNTs with organic or inorganic materials results in improvement of nanotubes’ useful properties and applicability, giving them the required magnetic, catalytic, electronic properties, etc. Therefore, characterization of CNTs is carried out to check and ascertain its features such as type, surface structure, and morphology (diameter, length), dispersion, configuration, size, etc. In this chapter, current innovative approaches widely utilized in CNTs characterization are classified and discussed with highlights on their principle as well as most of their merits and demerits.

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The authors appreciate the University Research Council (URC) of the University of Johannesburg for the funding support.

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  1. Centre for Nanoengineering and Tribocorrosion (CNT), University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Olusola Olaitan Ayeleru, Nyam Tarhemba Tobias, Matthew Adah Onu & Peter Apata Olubambi

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Helen Uchenna Modekwe & Kapil Moothi

  3. Research Centre for Synthesis and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Science, Doornfontein Campus, Faculty of Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Messai Adenew Mamo

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Michael Olawale Daramola

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Olaitan Ayeleru, O. et al. (2021). Innovative Approaches in Characterization of Carbon Nanotube. In: Abraham, J., Thomas, S., Kalarikkal, N. (eds) Handbook of Carbon Nanotubes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70614-6_55-1

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