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Inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like nanoparticles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

R. Tenne
R. Tenne*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: reshef.tenne@weizmann.ac.il This author was an editor of this focus issue during the review and decision stage. For the JMR policy on review and publication of manuscripts authored by editors, please refer to http://www.mrs.org/jmr_policy This review article is based on the author's 2005 MRS Medal talk titled “Inorganic Nanotubes and Inorganic Fullerene-Like Materials: From Concept to Applications,” presented at the 2005 MRS Fall Meeting on November 30, 2005.
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Abstract

We have proposed in 1992 that nanoparticles of layered compounds will be unstable against folding and close into fullerene-like structures and nanotubes (IF). Nanotubes and fullerene-like structures were prepared from numerous compounds with layered and recently also non-layered structure by various groups. Much progress has been achieved in the synthesis of inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like nanoparticles of WS2 and MoS2 and many other metal dichalcogenides over the last few years. Substantial progress has been accomplished in the use of such nanoparticles for tribological applications and lately for impact resilient nanocomposites. These tests indicated that IF-MoS2 and IF-WS2 are heading for large scale applications in the automotive, machining, aerospace, electronics, defense, medical and numerous other kinds of industries. A few products based on these nanoparticles have been recently commercialized by “ApNano Materials, Inc”. Novel applications of inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like nanoparticles in the fields of catalysis; microelectronics; Li rechargeable batteries; medical and opto-electronics will be discussed.

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Chemical synthesisNanostructureTribology
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 21 , Issue 11 , November 2006 , pp. 2726 - 2743
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