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Burn Them Right! Determining the Optimal Temperature for the Purification of Carbon Materials by Combustion

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A new purification procedure for carbon nanoforms is proposed. It was tested on multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) prepared by arc discharge, which is among the most challenging of cases due to the chemical and structural similarity between the MWCNTs and most of the impurities to be removed. Indeed, the various methods for synthesizing carbon nanoforms lead to a distribution of carbonaceous products, such as carbon shells, carbon spheres, fullerenes, and a variety of other species. Thus, many strategies to purify the desired products have been developed. Among the most successful ones, thermal oxidation (combustion) seems particularly efficient. To be successful while preserving a reasonable amount of MWCNTs, the combustion temperature has to be carefully selected. Moreover, the ideal combustion temperature does not only depend on the material to be treated but also on the overall system used to perform the reaction, including the reactor type and the parameters of the gaseous reactant. Typically, the optimization of the purification relies on multiple experiments and analysis of the products. However, to the best of our knowledge, a strategy to determine a priori the most suitable temperature has not been reported yet. We demonstrate here that a thermogravimetric method, namely the constant decomposition rate thermal analysis (CRTA), is particularly well adapted to answer this question. An isothermal treatment based on the results obtained from a CRTA program allowed arc-MWCNTs to be successfully purified from graphenic shells while optimizing the yield of the MWCNTs. This strategy is believed to be valuable not only for purifying MWCNTs but also for the purification of other carbonaceous forms, including new carbon nanoforms.
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hal-03737914 , version 1 (25-07-2022)

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Emmanuel Picheau, Ferdinand Hof, Alain Derré, Sara Amar, Laure Noé, et al.. Burn Them Right! Determining the Optimal Temperature for the Purification of Carbon Materials by Combustion. Journal of Carbon Research, 2022, 8 (2), pp.31. ⟨10.3390/c8020031⟩. ⟨hal-03737914⟩
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