A short introduction on: Carbon nano tube and the reaction dynamics inside it-Part 2

Anant Babu Marahatta
Ph.D. student in Chemistry
Tohoku University,Japan

A carbon nanotube may be considered as a hollow cylinder formed by rolling up a graphite sheet. The chirality and diameter of a carbon nanotube is uniquely defined by a vector (n, m), na + mb; where a and b denote the unit vectors of the hexagonal lattice and n and m are integers.

Fig ; 2.  A unit cell of a system of twelve carbon nano tubes and 1540 water molecules.

A short introduction on: Carbon nano tube and the reaction dynamics inside it-Part 1

Anant Babu Marahatta
Ph.D. Student in Chemistry
Tohoku University,Japan

This is the age of science and technology. In the world, many technological devices have been used and constructed which are the blessings of the science. In the field of science, nanotechnology plays crucial role for the innovation of several nano size devices from the nano materials either by modifying their properties or by using them directly.

Generally, nanotechnology is defined as the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. In recent years, properties and structures of nano size materials have attracted many people's attention. Their unique properties and small dimensionality give very promising future for various potential applications. Out of the several nano materials, the history of the newly discovered allotropic forms of carbon called “Fullerene” is the recent one. Significant progress has been made toward the understanding of the properties and structures of nano tubes.

FIG.1 [a] A hexagonal graphite sheet to create a zig-zag or armchair nanotube by rolling up along or y axis; [b] A graphite sheet with active –COOH groups; [c] An armchair SWNT with a diameter of 8.15 Å; [d] A hydrophilic SWNT with –COOH groups having an inner diameter of 8.40 Å.