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One-pot synthesis of carbon nanotubes from renewable resource: cellulose acetate

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In the present work, we report for the first time one-pot synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by pyrolysis of cellulose acetate (CA) cross-linked with polyisocyanate in the fumed silica template. NiCl2 was chosen as precatalyst for CNT growth. The diameter of CNTs is 24–38 nm and their wall thickness is 9–11 nm. The main role in the formation of CNTs by the pyrolysis of CA may be attributed to combination of closed macropores in the template formed by evolved CO2 during cross-linking reaction and mesopores formed by silica particles. The macropores acted as microreactors while the mesopores templated catalytic nanoparticles. The importance of this method for CNT synthesis reported here consists of the utilization of readily available renewable resource—CA. Moreover the method does not require preliminary synthesis of catalyst, it is technologically simple (can be performed in the conventional tube furnace), and hence it is energetically efficient.

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Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC) funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is greatly acknowledged for the financial support. This work was performed in the frame of Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC) activities funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Chalmers area of advance for Production.

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  1. V.I. Vernadskii Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospekt Palladina 32/34, Kyiv, 03142, Ukraine

    Lyubov Dubrovina & Volodymyr Ogenko

  2. Department of Microtechnolgy and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Olga Naboka & Peter Enoksson

  3. Wallenberg Wood Science Center, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Olga Naboka, Paul Gatenholm & Peter Enoksson

  4. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Paul Gatenholm

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Dubrovina, L., Naboka, O., Ogenko, V. et al. One-pot synthesis of carbon nanotubes from renewable resource: cellulose acetate. J Mater Sci 49, 1144–1149 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-013-7793-8

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