Issue 12, 2010
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Nanoscale

Single-walled carbon nanohorns and their applications

Shuyun Zhuab  and  Guobao Xu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, China
E-mail: guobaoxu@ciac.jl.cn
Fax: +86-431-85262747
Tel: + 86-431-85262747

b Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract

Single-walled carbon nanohorns (SWCNHs) are horn-shaped single-walled tubules with a conical tip. They are generally synthesized by laser ablation of pure graphite without using metal catalyst with high production rate and high yield, and typically form radial aggregates. SWCNHs are essentially metal-free and very pure, which avoids cumbersome purification and makes them user-friendly and environmentally benign. Currently, SWCNHs have been widely studied for various applications, such as gas storage, adsorption, catalyst support, drug delivery system, magnetic resonance analysis, electrochemistry, biosensing application, photovoltaics and photoelectrochemical cells, photodynamic therapy, fuel cells, and so on. This review outlines the research progress on SWCNHs, including their properties, functionalization, applications, and outlook.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0NR00387E
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
07 Jun 2010
Accepted
11 Aug 2010
First published
18 Oct 2010

Nanoscale, 2010,2, 2538-2549

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