Fabrication Of Carbon Nanoribbons Via Chemical Treatment Of Carbon Nanotubes And Their Self-Assembling.

Abstract

ABSTRACTSome potential applications of the nanoribbons and nanorods occur in the medical field, using gold nanoribbon therapies against cancer cells because they have absorption in the near infrared region. In this paper, the nanoribbons were obtained by physical-chemical method based on multilayer carbon nanotubes functionalized with carboxylic radical groups (-COOH). The obtained material was characterized by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) and Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). The obtained nanoribbons have a diameter of 320 nm with preferably 126° angle in their morphology.