Molecular Evolutionary Growth of Ultralong Semiconducting Double‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Abstract The self‐assembling preparation accompanied with template auto‐catalysis loop and the ability to gather energy, induces the appearance of chirality and entropy reduction in biotic systems. However, an abiotic system with biotic characteristics is of great significance but still missing. Her...
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| author | Jun Gao Yaxin Jiang Sibo Chen Hongjie Yue He Ren Zhenxing Zhu Fei Wei |
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| description | Abstract The self‐assembling preparation accompanied with template auto‐catalysis loop and the ability to gather energy, induces the appearance of chirality and entropy reduction in biotic systems. However, an abiotic system with biotic characteristics is of great significance but still missing. Here, it is demonstrated that the molecular evolution is characteristic of ultralong carbon nanotube preparation, revealing the advantage of chiral assembly through template auto‐catalysis growth, stepwise‐enriched chirality distribution with decreasing entropy, and environmental effects on the evolutionary growth. Specifically, the defective and metallic nanotubes perform inferiority to semiconducting counterparts, among of which the ones with double walls and specific chirality (n, m) are more predominant due to molecular coevolution. An explicit evolutionary trend for tailoring certain layer chirality is presented toward perfect near‐(2n, n)‐containing semiconducting double‐walled nanotubes. These findings extend our conceptual understanding for the template auto‐catalysis assembly of abiotic carbon nanotubes, and provide an inspiration for preparing chiral materials with kinetic stability by evolutionary growth. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-33fc72ab73e543e6a8a20a91a3a67e352023-01-04T10:53:44ZengWileyAdvanced Science2198-38442023-01-01101n/an/a10.1002/advs.202205025Molecular Evolutionary Growth of Ultralong Semiconducting Double‐Walled Carbon NanotubesJun Gao0Yaxin Jiang1Sibo Chen2Hongjie Yue3He Ren4Zhenxing Zhu5Fei Wei6Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 ChinaAbstract The self‐assembling preparation accompanied with template auto‐catalysis loop and the ability to gather energy, induces the appearance of chirality and entropy reduction in biotic systems. However, an abiotic system with biotic characteristics is of great significance but still missing. Here, it is demonstrated that the molecular evolution is characteristic of ultralong carbon nanotube preparation, revealing the advantage of chiral assembly through template auto‐catalysis growth, stepwise‐enriched chirality distribution with decreasing entropy, and environmental effects on the evolutionary growth. Specifically, the defective and metallic nanotubes perform inferiority to semiconducting counterparts, among of which the ones with double walls and specific chirality (n, m) are more predominant due to molecular coevolution. An explicit evolutionary trend for tailoring certain layer chirality is presented toward perfect near‐(2n, n)‐containing semiconducting double‐walled nanotubes. These findings extend our conceptual understanding for the template auto‐catalysis assembly of abiotic carbon nanotubes, and provide an inspiration for preparing chiral materials with kinetic stability by evolutionary growth.https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202205025carbon nanotubesgrowth mechanismmolecular evolutionarytemplate auto‐catalysis |
| spellingShingle | Jun Gao Yaxin Jiang Sibo Chen Hongjie Yue He Ren Zhenxing Zhu Fei Wei Molecular Evolutionary Growth of Ultralong Semiconducting Double‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes Advanced Science carbon nanotubes growth mechanism molecular evolutionary template auto‐catalysis |
| title | Molecular Evolutionary Growth of Ultralong Semiconducting Double‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes |
| title_full | Molecular Evolutionary Growth of Ultralong Semiconducting Double‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes |
| title_fullStr | Molecular Evolutionary Growth of Ultralong Semiconducting Double‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Molecular Evolutionary Growth of Ultralong Semiconducting Double‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes |
| title_short | Molecular Evolutionary Growth of Ultralong Semiconducting Double‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes |
| title_sort | molecular evolutionary growth of ultralong semiconducting double walled carbon nanotubes |
| topic | carbon nanotubes growth mechanism molecular evolutionary template auto‐catalysis |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202205025 |
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