Decorating and Filling of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with TiO2 Nanoparticles via Wet Chemical Method.docVIP

Engineering, 2013, 5, 207-212 doi:10.4236/eng.2013.52030 Published Online February 2013 (/journal/eng) Decorating and Filling of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with TiO Nanoparticles via Wet Chemical Method 2 Sedigheh Abbasi , Seyed Mojtaba Zebarjad , Seyed Hossein Noie Baghban 1 2* 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Department of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Email: zebarjad@um.ac.ir * 1 2 Received October 14, 2012; revised November 20, 2012; accepted December 19, 2012 ABSTRACT Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have been successfully modified with TiO nanoparticles via wet chemical 2 method. For this purpose tetra chloride titanium (TiCl ) was used as titanium source. MWCNTs were exposed at dif- 4 ferent amount of TiCl (0.25 and 0.1 ml) and different soaking times. The modified MWCNTs have been characterized 4 by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TEM results showed that the MWCNTs were fully decorated with TiO at short term immersion. Increasing soaking time caused to fill the MWCNTs with TiO2 2 nanoparticles. The results showed that the amount of precursor had a significant role on quantity of decoration. The decoration of outer surface of MWCNTs with TiO was more noticeable at large amount of TiCl . XRD results revealed 2 4 that the crystalline structure of TiO on the surface and inner of MWCNTs was rutile. The average size of TiO2 2 nanoparticles which modified MWCNTs were 20 nm. Keywords: MWCNT; TiO Nanoparticles; Modification; Decoration; Filling 2 1. Introduction , SnO , ZnO, Fe O , MnO and RuO2 2 2 3 2 oxides such as TiO2 have bee