Synthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotubes by high-temperature vacuum annealing of amorphous carbon

Vacuum annealing of a mixture of amorphous carbon and cobalt nanoparticles supported on microporous zeolite at high-temperature results in the formation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes which are essentially filled with metal nanoparticles or nanowires as observed by transmission electron microscopy. The electronic properties of nanotubes by variable temperature ESR techniques shows that g values show little change with temperature from 77 to 327 K but the line width (ΔH_pp) of the ESR signal for nanotubes synthesized from amorphous carbon increases from 7.9 G at 77 K to 9.5 G at 327 K.