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Microwave Synthesis of Fe-filled Carbon Nanotubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Oxana Vasilievna Kharissova ,
Ubaldo Ortiz  and
Moises Hinojosa
Oxana Vasilievna Kharissova
Affiliation:
[email protected], Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León, FCFM, Ciudad Universitaria, F- 101, San Nicolas de los Garza,, Nuevo Leon, 66450, Mexico, 81 83294030 ext. 6135
Ubaldo Ortiz
Affiliation:
[email protected], UANL, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon, 66450, Mexico
Moises Hinojosa
Affiliation:
[email protected], UANL, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon, 66450, Mexico
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Abstract

A highly efficient one-step technique was developed in order to obtain long and aligned carbon nanotubes with or without Fe filling. The aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were synthesized by heating ferrocene Fe(C5H5)2 using microwave (MW) irradiation. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) were used to study the growth process of the aligned multi-layer carbon nanotubes. It was found that CNTs have a metal particle at the tip of each tube. This carbon nanostructures promise to become important in fuel cells and in nanoscale engineering of other systems.

Keywords

microwave heatingnanostructuretransmission electron microscopy (TEM)
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 922: Symposium U – Organic and Inorganic Nanotubes – From Molecular to Submicron Structures , 2006 , 0922-U07-40
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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