Carbon nanotubes and other fullerene nanocrystals in domestic propane and natural gas combustion streams

J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2004 Sep;4(7):716-8. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2004.095.

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes and other aggregated fullerene-related multi-layer shell structures have been collected in propane and natural gas flame emissions from domestic cooking stoves and observed by transmission electron microscopy. Some aggregated nanoparticles collected on 3 mm electron microscope grids by thermal precipitation were mostly multi-walled nanotubes; many tangled and distorted, and aggregated with other closed-concentric, multi-shell forms. Such clean-burning regimes may be major contributors to complex particulate matter in indoor and outdoor air.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Air Pollution, Indoor
  • Carbon / chemistry
  • Cooking
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Fullerenes / chemistry*
  • Hot Temperature
  • Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / methods*
  • Nanotechnology / methods*
  • Nanotubes, Carbon / chemistry*
  • Propane / chemistry*
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Fossil Fuels
  • Fullerenes
  • Nanotubes, Carbon
  • Carbon
  • Propane