STRUCTUAL CONTROL OF NANOCARBON MATERIALS BY NOVEL PLASMA PROCESSING

摘要

Novel approaches using plasma processing technology have been performed in order to develop fullerene- and nanotube-based materials with new function, where various kinds of electromagnetic energy sources yielding the plasma production and control are devised: pair-ion plasma, alkali-fullerene plasma, and radio-frequency reactive plasma. As a result of the process control of these plasmas we have succeeded in creating novel structured nano carbons such as fullerene dimmers, alkali-metal encapsulated fullerenes, individually-aligned pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes, and alkali-metal and/or fullerene encapsulated single-walled carbon nanotubes.