ISSN:
1662-8985
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
In this paper, we report a simple growth of carbon nanofibers by means of the combustionof ethyl alcohol. In our experiment, copper plate was employed as substrate, iron nitrate and ironchloride as catalyst precursor and ethanol as carbon source. The as-grown carbon nanofibers werecharacterized by employing scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy,high-resolution field-emission transmission electron microscopy and Reinshaw optical confocalRaman spectroscopy. Our results suggested that it would tend to form relatively uniform nanofiberswhen the catalyst precursor was iron nitrate, however, to form some helical structure nanofibers whenthe catalyst precursor was iron chloride. The sample using iron chloride as the catalyst precursor has ahigher graphitization degree than that using iron nitrate as the catalyst precursor
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/40/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FAMR.26-28.731.pdf
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