Synthesis and Optical Enhancement of Amorphous Carbon Nanotubes/Silver Nanohybrids via Chemical Route at Low Temperature

Table 1

The optical band gap energy (𝐸_𝑔) of all samples HNO₃ purified αCNTN/Ag nanohybrids.

Samples at different molars of AgNO3 (M)	Optical band gap energy (eV)
	HCl functionalized α-CNTN/Ag	HNO3 functionalized α-CNTN/Ag
0.00	2.09	2.30
0.01	1.55	1.56
0.05	1.65	1.55
0.10	1.55	1.55
0.50	1.55	1.55
1.00	1.55	1.56