Fabrication of multiwalled carbon nanotubes in the channels of iron loaded three dimensional mesoporous material by catalytic chemical vapour deposition technique |
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Authors: | T SomanathanN Gokulakrishnan G ChandrasekarA Pandurangan |
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Institution: | a Department of Chemistry, Anna University, Chennai 600 025, India b School of Advanced Sciences, Chemistry division, VIT University, Chennai 600 048, India |
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Abstract: | The growth of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) was successfully achieved in the channels of three dimensional (3D) iron loaded mesoporous matrices (KIT-6) by employing catalytic chemical vapour deposition (CCVD) technique. The synthesised MWNTs, which were characterised by SEM, TEM and Raman spectroscopy, consist of thick graphene layers of about 10 nm composed of 29 graphene sheets with inner and outer diameter of ∼17 nm and ∼37 nm, respectively. The Raman spectrum showed the formation of well-graphitised MWNTs with significantly higher IG/ID ratio of 1.47 compared to commercial MWNTs. Comparatively, 2 wt% Fe loaded KIT-6 material produced a better yield of 91%, which is also highest compared with the report of MWNTs synthesis using mesoporous materials reported so far. |
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Keywords: | MWNTs CCVD Fe loaded KIT-6 Mesoporous materials |
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