Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene - Research and Applications

Silver single crystals were synthesized on a large-scale in water at room temperature in the presence of carboxyl-functionalized carbon nanotubes. Researchers in China and the UK developed an extremely simple "nanocarbon" method to produce Ag/CNT nanohybrids. This process and the resulting nanomaterial could prove very useful for catalysis and chemical biology. Even more, this nanocarbon method can be used to reclaim silver and gold from wastes directly.