Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1997, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (1): 124.

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Production of Diamond Nanospherulite at Carbon-Water Interface by Laser Ablation and Its Characterization by TEM

WANG Yu-Huang1, YU Rong-Qing1, LIU Zhao-Yang1, HUANG Rong-Bin1, ZHENG Lan-Sun1, ZHANG Xiao-Feng2, HU Gang2, ZHANG Ze2   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005;
    2. Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005
  • Received:1996-06-04 Online:1997-01-24 Published:1997-01-24

Abstract: Carbon nanoparticle appearing in perfect spherical shape, with sizes varying from tens nanometers to several micrometers, can be produced by pulsed-laser ablating different elementary carbon samples immersed in water.Avariety of samples including HOPG,graphite, arcdischarging deposite, glassy-carbon and imitation-diamond have been tried.The yield of the diamand nanospherulite is found to depend on the structure of the sample.The SAEDpattern of the carbon-sphere produced from arc-discharging deposite can be at-tributed to the hexagonal structure of diamond, and its HREMimage exihibits 0.38nm×0.31 nm lattice, which is just three times of the distances for (110) (d=0.126 nm) and (004) (d=0.1030nm) crystal layers of hexagonal diamond, respectively.While the SAEDpattern from glassy-carbon sample displays a cubic-diamond structure.Furthermore, Raman spectra and 13C NMRindicate tetrahedral network of the spheres.

Key words: Diamond, Nanospherulitic, Laser ablation, TEM

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