Photo-ignition process of multiwall carbon nanotubes and ferrocene by continuous wave Xe lamp illumination

• Paolo Visconti,
• Patrizio Primiceri,
• Daniele Longo,
• Luciano Strafella,
• Paolo Carlucci,
• Mauro Lomascolo,
• Arianna Cretì and
• Giuseppe Mele

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 134–144, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.14

• ignitors; multiwalled carbon nanotubes; photo-induced ignition; Introduction The photo-ignition process of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was observed for the first time accidentally by exposing single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to the flash of an ordinary camera [1]. Following this, studies [2] highlighted

• that temperatures higher than 1500 °C were reached in localized points within the raw SWCNTs, confirming the hypothesis put forward in [1] and [2]. Further experiments were carried out to determine the cause of the photo-induced ignition in the SWCNTs [4]. In these tests, SWCNTs (synthesized by the

• processes. This innovative research field was recently developed in [25][26]. In more detail, the photo-induced ignition of MWCNTs containing ferrocene metal nanoparticles by using a Xe flash lamp was used to photo-ignite gaseous methane/air mixtures. This resulted in a more rapid and homogeneous combustion