Potential of Carbon Nanotubes in Enhance of Photocatalyst Activity

Volume 1 - Issue 3

Atheel Alwash¹, Hadeel Adil¹, Zainab Hussain² and Emad Yousif¹*

Received: May 28, 2018;   Published: June 07, 2018

DOI: 10.32474/ANOAJ.2018.01.000115

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Abstract

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have generated huge activity in most areas of science and engineering due to their remarkable physical and chemical properties. No previous materials have displayed the combination of superlative mechanical, thermal and electronic properties attributed to them. These properties make nanotubes ideal, not only for a wide range of applications but as a test bed for fundamental science. This review highlighted some of the properties of these nanotubes and also their role as supports materials in enhance of photocatalytic activity of nanocrystals for removal of contaminants.

Keywords: Carbon Nanotubes, Photocatalytic Activity, Nanocrystals, Hybridization, Honeycomb Atomic Arrangement, Tubular Carbon Structures, Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Atomic Vacancies, Ballistic Conduction

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