TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiwall and bamboo-like carbon nanotubes from the Allende chondrite
T2 - A probable source of asymmetry
AU - Cruz-Rosas, Hugo I.
AU - Riquelme, Francisco
AU - Santiago, Patricia
AU - Rendón, Luis
AU - Buhse, Thomas
AU - Ortega-Gutiérrez, Fernando
AU - Borja-Urby, Raúl
AU - Mendoza, Doroteo
AU - Gaona, Carlos
AU - Miramontes, Pedro
AU - Cocho, Germinal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Cruz-Rosas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2019/7/1
Y1 - 2019/7/1
N2 - This study presents multiwall and bamboo-like carbon nanotubes found in samples from the Allende carbonaceous chondrite using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). A highly disordered lattice observed in this material suggests the presence of chiral domains in it. Our results also show amorphous and poorly-graphitized carbon, nanodiamonds, and onion-like fullerenes. The presence of multiwall and bamboo-like carbon nanotubes have important implications for hypotheses that explain how a probable source of asymmetry in carbonaceous chondrites might have contributed to the enantiomeric excess in soluble organics under extraterrestrial scenarios. This is the first study proving the existence of carbon nanotubes in carbonaceous chondrites.
AB - This study presents multiwall and bamboo-like carbon nanotubes found in samples from the Allende carbonaceous chondrite using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). A highly disordered lattice observed in this material suggests the presence of chiral domains in it. Our results also show amorphous and poorly-graphitized carbon, nanodiamonds, and onion-like fullerenes. The presence of multiwall and bamboo-like carbon nanotubes have important implications for hypotheses that explain how a probable source of asymmetry in carbonaceous chondrites might have contributed to the enantiomeric excess in soluble organics under extraterrestrial scenarios. This is the first study proving the existence of carbon nanotubes in carbonaceous chondrites.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0218750
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0218750
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 31260466
AN - SCOPUS:85069267338
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 14
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 7
M1 - e0218750
ER -