Efficient Toroidal Formation of Sorted Metallic and Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes via General Pickering Emulsion

Abstract

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with a toroidal/coiled geometry-shaped structure sustain innovative preference to future technology material. The toroidal shape can be used in designing nanoelectronic devices for various prospective applications such as tactile sensors, electromagnetic absorbers, and energy storage devices. In this study, we demonstrate the fabrication of toroidal geometry shapes of metallic (m-) and semiconducting (s-) SWNTs, which can be revealed by simply mixing a few solutions in the correct ratio, both oil-in-water (hydrophobic) and water-in-oil (hydrophilic) emulsion processes. Herein, the letter communicates the formation of pure m- and s-SWNTs (metallic and semiconducting) by annular, obtained from gel column chromatography, via the emulsion approach. We have also studied the surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate removal of sorted species from a gel column by a simple method named as chloroform/methanol/water extraction.