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A new method of a carbon nanotube purity estimation has been developed on the basis of Raman spectroscopy. The spectra of carbon soot containing different amounts of nanotubes were registered under heating from a probing laser beam with a step-by-step increased power density. The material temperature in the laser spot was estimated from a position of the tangential Raman mode demonstrating a linear thermal shift (-0.012 cm-1/K) from the position 1592 cm-1 (at room temperature). The rate of the material temperature rise versus the laser power density (determining the slope of a corresponding graph) appeared to correlate strongly with the nanotube content in the soot. The influence of the experimental conditions on the slope value has been excluded via a simultaneous measurement of a reference sample with a high nanotube content (95 vol. %). After the calibration (done by a comparison of the Raman and the transmission electron microscopy data for the nanotube percentage in the same samples) the Raman-based method is able to provide a quantitative purity estimation for any nanotube-containing material.
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Received: 11 December 2001 / Accepted: 12 December 2001 / Published online: 4 March 2002
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Terekhov, S., Obraztsova, E., Lobach, A. et al. Laser heating method for estimation of carbon nanotube purity . Appl Phys A 74, 393–396 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003390201285
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003390201285