Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes Produced by Pyrolysis of Composite Film of Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) and Modified Fly Ash英文文献资料.docVIP

Materials Sciences and Applications, 2012, 3, 103-109 103 /10.4236/msa.2012.32016 Published Online February 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/msa) Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes Produced by Pyrolysis of Composite Film of Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) and Modified Fly Ash Dilip C. D. Nath , Veena Sahajwalla * Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. * Email: dilip.nath@.au Received December 4 , 2011; revised January 24 , 2012; accepted February 1 , 2012 th th st ABSTRACT We determined the catalytic function of chemically modified fly ash (MFA) for the growth of carbon nanotube (CNT) ropes with ~54% yield by the pyrolysis of the composite film of poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) at 500?C for 10 min under 2 L/min flow of nitrogen. Fly ash was treated with 2M sodium hydroxide to have MFA and used with PVA to fabricate the composite film by aqua casting. CNT was analyzed using SEM, TEM, XPS and Raman spectroscopy. The growths of CNT on MFA surfaces were visualized with different geometric self-assembly, e.g., bundles of CNT in ropes, twist- ed ropes, Y-branch ropes and staked-cone sheet. Thus, the mixtures of CNT ropes and MFA are a potential filler mate- rial for fabricating composites with polymer and metal. Keywords: Poly (Vinly Alcohol); Fly Ash; Carbon Nanotube and Self-Assembly 1. Introduction In the pyrolysis method, benzene at 1000?C over Ni powder for 60 min generated different types of carbon nanostructures [6]. Carbon nanocapsules with silicon car- bide nanoparticles were reported by thermal decomposi- tion of PVA at 500?C in argon [7]. Catalytic graphitiza- tion was described using PVA with an iron-containing catalyst for the formation of CNTs at 600?C - 800?C in nitrogen flow fo