TY - JOUR
T1 - Controllable synthesis of single-and double-walled carbon nanotubes from petroleum coke and their application to solar cells
AU - Xu, Kai
AU - Li, Yongfeng
AU - Yang, Fan
AU - Yang, Wang
AU - Zhang, Liqiang
AU - Xu, Chunming
AU - Kaneko, Toshiro
AU - Hatakeyama, Rikizo
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully thank for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21106184 ), the Science Foundation Research Funds Provided to New Recruitments of China University of Petroleum, Beijing (No. YJRC-2011-18 ), and Thousand Talents Program.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - Single-and double-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs and DWCNTs) have been controllably synthesized by an arc discharge in different atmosphere using petroleum coke as carbon source. The morphology and properties of two kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) synthesized with Fe as catalyst were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer, thermogravimetric analysis and infrared spectroscopy. In the He gas atmosphere only SWCNTs were found to be synthesized by arc discharge in contrast to the case in Ar gas atmosphere in which only DWCNTs were formed, In addition, properties of solar cells based on both kinds of CNTs and n-type Si are examined under illumination of light emission diode (LED). It is found that the performance of solar cells depends significantly on the type of CNTs, i.e., SWCNTs-based solar cells show better performance under LED illumination with wavelengths in the range of 400-940 nm than the case of DWCNTs which exhibit high performance under illumination of the 1310 nm infrared light.
AB - Single-and double-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs and DWCNTs) have been controllably synthesized by an arc discharge in different atmosphere using petroleum coke as carbon source. The morphology and properties of two kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) synthesized with Fe as catalyst were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer, thermogravimetric analysis and infrared spectroscopy. In the He gas atmosphere only SWCNTs were found to be synthesized by arc discharge in contrast to the case in Ar gas atmosphere in which only DWCNTs were formed, In addition, properties of solar cells based on both kinds of CNTs and n-type Si are examined under illumination of light emission diode (LED). It is found that the performance of solar cells depends significantly on the type of CNTs, i.e., SWCNTs-based solar cells show better performance under LED illumination with wavelengths in the range of 400-940 nm than the case of DWCNTs which exhibit high performance under illumination of the 1310 nm infrared light.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.11.028
DO - 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.11.028
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84891558302
SN - 0008-6223
VL - 68
SP - 511
EP - 519
JO - Carbon
JF - Carbon
ER -