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@article{Boncel:2014:10.3762/bjnano.5.24,
author = {Boncel, S and Pattinson, SW and Geiser, V and Shaffer, MSP and Koziol, KKK},
doi = {10.3762/bjnano.5.24},
journal = {Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology},
pages = {219--233},
title = {En route to controlled catalytic CVD synthesis of densely packed and vertically aligned nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube arrays},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.5.24},
volume = {5},
year = {2014}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - The catalytic chemical vapour deposition (c-CVD) technique was applied in the synthesis of vertically aligned arrays of nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (N-CNTs). A mixture of toluene (main carbon source), pyrazine (1,4-diazine, nitrogen source) and ferrocene (catalyst precursor) was used as the injection feedstock. To optimize conditions for growing the most dense and aligned N-CNT arrays, we investigated the influence of key parameters, i.e., growth temperature (660, 760 and 860 °C), composition of the feedstock and time of growth, on morphology and properties of N-CNTs. The presence of nitrogen species in the hot zone of the quartz reactor decreased the growth rate of N-CNTs down to about one twentieth compared to the growth rate of multi-wall CNTs (MWCNTs). As revealed by electron microscopy studies (SEM, TEM), the individual N-CNTs (half as thick as MWCNTs) grown under the optimal conditions were characterized by a superior straightness of the outer walls, which translated into a high alignment of dense nanotube arrays, i.e., 5 × 108 nanotubes per mm2 (100 times more than for MWCNTs grown in the absence of nitrogen precursor). In turn, the internal crystallographic order of the N-CNTs was found to be of a ‘bamboo’-like or ‘membrane’-like (multi-compartmental structure) morphology. The nitrogen content in the nanotube products, which ranged from 0.0 to 3.0 wt %, was controlled through the concentration of pyrazine in the feedstock. Moreover, as revealed by Raman/FT-IR spectroscopy, the incorporation of nitrogen atoms into the nanotube walls was found to be proportional to the number of deviations from the sp2-hybridisation of graphene C-atoms. As studied by XRD, the temperature and the [pyrazine]/[ferrocene] ratio in the feedstock affected the composition of the catalyst particles, and hence changed the growth mechanism of individual N-CNTs into a ‘mixed base-and-tip’ (primarily of the base-type) type as compared to t
AU - Boncel,S
AU - Pattinson,SW
AU - Geiser,V
AU - Shaffer,MSP
AU - Koziol,KKK
DO - 10.3762/bjnano.5.24
EP - 233
PY - 2014///
SN - 2190-4286
SP - 219
TI - En route to controlled catalytic CVD synthesis of densely packed and vertically aligned nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube arrays
T2 - Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.5.24
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UR - https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/articles/5/24
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/87131
VL - 5
ER -
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