TY - JOUR
T1 - Comprehensive spectral and instrumental approaches for the easy monitoring of features and purity of different carbon nanostructures for nanocomposite applications
AU - Boccaleri, Enrico
AU - Arrais, Aldo
AU - Frache, Alberto
AU - Gianelli, Walter
AU - Fino, Paolo
AU - Camino, Giovanni
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported by Prisma project for which WG, GC and EB acknowledge INSTM. Prof. J.B. Nagy (University of Namur, Belgium) is acknowledged for supportive discussion on the synthetic aspects of carbon nanotubes. EB and AA are indebted to Prof. P.L. Stanghellini (University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy) for a helpful discussion on acquired vibrational spectra and to Prof. L. Marchese (University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy) for an useful discussion on the experimental results. WG wishes to thank E. Arrobbio for thermogravimetric analyses.
PY - 2006/7/15
Y1 - 2006/7/15
N2 - A wide series of carbon nanostructures (ranging from fullerenes, through carbon nanotubes, up to carbon nanofibers) promise to change several fields in material science, but a real industrial implementation depends on their availability at reasonable prices with affordable and reproducible degrees of purity. In this study we propose simple instrumental approaches to efficiently characterize different commercial samples, particularly for qualitative evaluation of impurities, the discrimination of their respective spectral features and, when possible, for quantitative determination. We critically discuss information that researchers in the field of nanocomposite technology can achieve in this aim by spectral techniques such as Raman and FT-IR spectroscopy, thermo-gravimetrical analysis, mass spectrometry-hyphenated thermogravimetry, X-ray diffraction and energy dispersive spectroscopy. All these can be helpful, in applied research on material science, for a fast reliable monitoring of the actual purity of carbon products in both commercial and laboratory-produced samples as well as in composite materials.
AB - A wide series of carbon nanostructures (ranging from fullerenes, through carbon nanotubes, up to carbon nanofibers) promise to change several fields in material science, but a real industrial implementation depends on their availability at reasonable prices with affordable and reproducible degrees of purity. In this study we propose simple instrumental approaches to efficiently characterize different commercial samples, particularly for qualitative evaluation of impurities, the discrimination of their respective spectral features and, when possible, for quantitative determination. We critically discuss information that researchers in the field of nanocomposite technology can achieve in this aim by spectral techniques such as Raman and FT-IR spectroscopy, thermo-gravimetrical analysis, mass spectrometry-hyphenated thermogravimetry, X-ray diffraction and energy dispersive spectroscopy. All these can be helpful, in applied research on material science, for a fast reliable monitoring of the actual purity of carbon products in both commercial and laboratory-produced samples as well as in composite materials.
KW - Carbon nanostructures
KW - Infrared spectroscopy
KW - Polymer composites
KW - Raman spectroscopy
KW - Thermogravimetrical analysis-mass spectrometry
KW - X-ray diffraction
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mseb.2006.03.028
DO - 10.1016/j.mseb.2006.03.028
M3 - Article
SN - 0921-5107
VL - 131
SP - 72
EP - 82
JO - Materials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology
JF - Materials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology
IS - 1-3
ER -