Assembly of Ring-Shaped Phosphorus within Carbon Nanotube Nanoreactors

Jinying Zhang; Dan Zhao; Dingbin Xiao; Chuansheng Ma; Hongchu Du; Xin Li; Lihui Zhang; Jialiang Huang; Hongyang Huang; Chun-Lin Jia; David Tománek; Chunming Niu

doi:10.1002/anie.201611740

Assembly of Ring-Shaped Phosphorus within Carbon Nanotube Nanoreactors

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2017 Feb 6;56(7):1850-1854. doi: 10.1002/anie.201611740. Epub 2017 Jan 11.

Authors

Jinying Zhang¹, Dan Zhao¹, Dingbin Xiao¹, Chuansheng Ma², Hongchu Du³, Xin Li¹, Lihui Zhang¹, Jialiang Huang¹, Hongyang Huang¹, Chun-Lin Jia^{2

3}, David Tománek⁴, Chunming Niu¹

Affiliations

¹ Center of Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy, State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, School of Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, P.R. China.
² The School of Electronic and Information Engineering and State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, P.R. China.
³ Ernst Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany.
⁴ Physics and Astronomy Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824-2320, USA.

PMID: 28074606
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201611740

Abstract

A phosphorus allotrope that has not been observed so far, ring-shaped phosphorus consisting of alternate P₈ and P₂ structural units, has been assembled inside multi-walled carbon nanotube nanoreactors with inner diameters of 5-8 nm by a chemical vapor transport and reaction of red phosphorus at 500 °C. The ring-shaped nanostructures with surrounding graphene walls are stable under ambient conditions. The nanostructures were characterized by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Raman scattering, attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

Keywords: allotropes; carbon nanotubes; nanoreactors; phosphorus; vapor-phase reactions.

Publication types

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