TY - JOUR
T1 - Single-walled tubes and encapsulated nanoparticles
T2 - Symposium C of the IUMRS-ICAM'99: Fullerenes and Related Materials
AU - Jiao, J.
AU - Seraphin, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge collaboration and discussions with their colleagues at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Arizona, in particular Dan Zhou and Peter Nolan, and the research team of the MER Corp., Tucson, AZ. The work reported here was supported by grants from the US National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research and the US Department of Energy.
PY - 2000/7
Y1 - 2000/7
N2 - A comparative investigation of the preparation and structural properties of carbon nanoclusters was carried out by having the transition metals Fe, Co and Ni react with carbon using three different methods, with the focus on single-walled nanotubes and encapsulated nanoparticles. Carbon nanoclusters were synthesized first by the high temperature (approximately 3000 °C) and high carbon-content process of the conventional arc-discharge, secondly by the high temperature but low carbon-content process of the modified arc discharge, and finally by the relatively low temperature (approximately 500 °C) process of catalytic decomposition of carbon monoxide (CO). The samples were characterized with respect to morphology, internal structure, and related properties. The carbon nanoclusters prepared by the three different methods appear quite different on the surface, but have features in common that this report emphasizes. The same element can apparently serve different functions: (1) serving as catalyst under one set of conditions; and (2) being encapsulated into the growing cages in a different environment. The elements of the iron group (Fe, Co and Ni) were known as catalysts for growing the single-walled nanotubes and strings of spherical particles in conventional arc-discharge, but could be encapsulated into the graphitic particles in the modified arc discharge and the CO disproportion that this study demonstrates. It was found that variation of the metal to carbon ratio is required to make these elements assume the double roles of either catalyst or encapsulant.
AB - A comparative investigation of the preparation and structural properties of carbon nanoclusters was carried out by having the transition metals Fe, Co and Ni react with carbon using three different methods, with the focus on single-walled nanotubes and encapsulated nanoparticles. Carbon nanoclusters were synthesized first by the high temperature (approximately 3000 °C) and high carbon-content process of the conventional arc-discharge, secondly by the high temperature but low carbon-content process of the modified arc discharge, and finally by the relatively low temperature (approximately 500 °C) process of catalytic decomposition of carbon monoxide (CO). The samples were characterized with respect to morphology, internal structure, and related properties. The carbon nanoclusters prepared by the three different methods appear quite different on the surface, but have features in common that this report emphasizes. The same element can apparently serve different functions: (1) serving as catalyst under one set of conditions; and (2) being encapsulated into the growing cages in a different environment. The elements of the iron group (Fe, Co and Ni) were known as catalysts for growing the single-walled nanotubes and strings of spherical particles in conventional arc-discharge, but could be encapsulated into the graphitic particles in the modified arc discharge and the CO disproportion that this study demonstrates. It was found that variation of the metal to carbon ratio is required to make these elements assume the double roles of either catalyst or encapsulant.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-3697(99)00363-7
DO - 10.1016/S0022-3697(99)00363-7
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0033749665
SN - 0022-3697
VL - 61
SP - 1055
EP - 1067
JO - Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
JF - Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
IS - 7
Y2 - 13 June 1999 through 18 June 1999
ER -