Decoration of Carbon Nanotubes by Semiconducting or Metallic Nanoparticles using Fluidized Bed Chemical Vapour Deposition

  • Lassègue Pierre
    Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, France
  • Coppey Nicolas
    Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, France
  • Noé Laure
    Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales (CEMES), UPR-8011 CNRS, France
  • Monthioux Marc
    Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales (CEMES), UPR-8011 CNRS, France
  • Caussat Brigitte
    Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, France

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Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs) have promising properties that make them potentially useful in a wide variety of applications. The decoration of MWCNTs by metallic or semiconducting nanoparticles aims to intensify some of their properties, in particular thermal and electrical conductivity. Fluidized Bed Chemical Vapour Deposition (FBCVD) is an efficient process to uniformly coat powders by various materials. The coating by SnO2, Fe and Si nanoparticles of MWCNTs (Graphistrength®) tangled in balls of 360 microns in mean diameter using the FBCVD process has been studied. The influence of some deposition parameters with and without oxidative pre-treatment is analysed on the nucleation and growth of nanoparticles. The various results obtained indicate that the intrinsic surface reactivity of MWCNTs is high enough for CVD precursors involving the formation of highly reactive unsaturated species such as silylene SiH2 formed from silane SiH4 pyrolysis in the case of Si deposition. But it must be enhanced for less reactive CVD precursors such as tin tetrachloride SnCl4 which needs the presence of oxygen-containing groups at the nanotube surface to allow Sn nucleation. So, provided the reactivity of the powder surface and that of the CVD precursors are well tuned, the FBCVD process can uniformly coat the outer surface of MWCNTs by metallic or semiconducting nanoparticles.

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