Quantifying the bulk yield of carbyne confined in different carbon nanotube hosts

Author(s)
Christin Schuster, Clara Freytag, Weili Cui, Lei Shi, Emil Parth, Dido Denier van der Gon, Takeshi Saito, Kazuhiro Yanagi, Thomas Pichler
Abstract

Carbyne can be successfully synthesized inside carbon nanotubes with exceptionally high yield. However, the exact determination of its bulk yield remains challenging because of the lack of an available analysis method. Raman spectroscopy is the preferred method for the analysis of confined carbyne, as confined carbyne has the highest observed resonance Raman cross section. However, the resonance window is narrow and depends on the host carbon nanotube and its interaction with the confined carbyne, which results in challenges accounting for the bulk yield of confined carbyne in different environments. Here, we propose a model to quantify the yield of confined carbyne using distinct changes in the vibrational response induced by the anharmonic coupling between the carbon nanotube and the carbyne chain. This allows us to quantify the bulk yield of carbyne confined in different carbon nanotube environments without relying on the narrow resonance window of carbyne, paving the way for optimizing the bulk yield of confined carbyne and achieving the full growth potential.

Organisation(s)
Electronic Properties of Materials
External organisation(s)
Sun Yat-sen University, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo Metropolitan University
Journal
Carbon
Volume
234
No. of pages
6
ISSN
0008-6223
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2024.119979
Publication date
03-2025
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103018 Materials physics, 104017 Physical chemistry
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Chemistry, General Materials Science
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/336b8821-11b2-48f2-936d-d36a3d7c4853