Fluorine addition to single-wall carbon nanotubes revisited

Authors :: Jérôme Rossignol
D. Claves
Laboratoire des Matériaux Inorganiques (LMI)
Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Clermont Université-SIGMA Clermont (SIGMA Clermont)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB)
Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source :: Chemical Physics Letters, Chemical Physics Letters, 2009, 468 (4-6), pp.231-233. ⟨10.1016/j.cplett.2008.12.018⟩
Publication Year :: 2009
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2009.
Abstract: International audience; Contrarily to the widely-held opinion, the addition pattern issuing from the high temperature fluorination of single wall carbon nanotubes does not consist of a distribution of exo-addends on the outer surface of a tube. Instead, fluorotubes possess a varied bonding scheme consisting of graphite fluoride-like, fluorofullerene-like and internally 'addended' sections.