Study of aluminum powder as transition metal catalyst carrier for CVD synthesis of carbon nanotubes
✍ Scribed by Chunnian He; Naiqin Zhao; Yajing Han; Jiajun Li; Chunsheng Shi; Xiwen Du
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 966 KB
- Volume
- 441
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-5093
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✦ Synopsis
The possibility of using aluminum powder as transition metal catalyst carrier for CVD growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has been investigated. The fabrication process of Ni/Al catalyst involved the production of binary colloid (Ni(OH) 2 /Al) by deposition-precipitation method, followed by calcination in N 2 and reduction in H 2 . The nickel particles obtained were with uniform diameters. After the catalytic synthesis at 600 • C a mass of well-graphitized multi-walled CNTs with the diameters in the 10-20 nm range have been obtained, as evidenced by HRTEM. The operated catalytic particle encapsulated in CNT was nickel according to EDX analysis. However, when using pure nickel without aluminum as the catalyst, no CNTs have formed due to the agglomeration of Ni particles. Thus we speculated that the aluminum powder was responsible for the formation and the even dispersion of the nano-scale transition metal particles.