From dots to tubes - the reversed scenario of bottom-up external-catalyst-free synthesis of N-doped carbon nanotubes

Anna Kolanowska; Dariusz Łukowiec; Maciej Krzywiecki; Joanna Bok-Badura; Sławomir Boncel

doi:10.1039/d3cc01785k

From dots to tubes - the reversed scenario of bottom-up external-catalyst-free synthesis of N-doped carbon nanotubes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Jun 15;59(49):7659-7662. doi: 10.1039/d3cc01785k.

Authors

Anna Kolanowska^{1

2}, Dariusz Łukowiec³, Maciej Krzywiecki⁴, Joanna Bok-Badura⁵, Sławomir Boncel^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ NanoCarbon Group, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Organic Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry and Biotechnology, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 4, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland. anna.kolanowska@polsl.pl.
² Biotechnology Centre, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 8, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
³ Materials Research Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Konarskiego 18A, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
⁴ Institute of Physics-CSE, Silesian University of Technology, Konarskiego 22B, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
⁵ Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Inorganic, Analytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 6, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
⁶ Centre for Organic and Nanohybrid Electronics (CONE), Silesian University of Technology, Konarskiego 22B, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.

PMID: 37259945
DOI: 10.1039/d3cc01785k

Abstract

We present a novel external-catalyst-free route for the synthesis of N-doped carbon nanotubes (N-CNTs) from amino-acid-derived carbon dots (CDs) as sustainable resources. N-CNTs (∼4-26 at% of N) were comprehensively characterized by complementary techniques while the synthetic strategy emerges as an important alternative and, simultaneously, a simply-scalable approach.

MeSH terms

Catalysis
Nanotubes, Carbon*
Quantum Dots*

Substances

Nanotubes, Carbon