| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We have successfully prepared ferromagnetic carbon nanotubes (CNT) containing nickel metal in gram scale from commercially available granulated polystyrene and nickel nanoparticles as the catalyst, by heating with a domestic microwave oven for about 10 min. We found that the bigger the diameter of nickel nanoparticles used in this “Ni nanoparticle method” becomes by 1 nm, the bigger the diameter of the resulted CNTs becomes by about 1 nm. The surface of the CNTs was added acidic points by using Plasma in Water Method or Chemical Acidification Method. The surface contains COOH and OH groups, so that these CNTs were homogeneously dispersed in water over two months. The acidified ferromagnetic CNTs can be applied to saccharification catalyst for woody biomass and collection of radioactive cesium.
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