gas-phase growth of heterostructures of carbon nanotubes and bimetallic nanowires气相生长的碳纳米管和双金属纳米线异质结构.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2011, Article ID 736219, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/736219 Research Article Gas-Phase Growth of Heterostructures of Carbon Nanotubes and Bimetallic Nanowires Whi Dong Kim, Jung Min Park, Ji Young Ahn, and Soo Hyung Kim Department of Nanosystem and Nanoprocess Engineering, College of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Pusan National University, 30 Jangjeon-Dong, Geumjung-Gu, Busan 609-735, Republic of Korea Correspondence should be addressed to Soo Hyung Kim, sookim@pusan.ac.kr Received 22 November 2010; Accepted 4 January 2011 Academic Editor: Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc Copyright © 2011 Whi Dong Kim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A simple, inexpensive, and viable method for growing multiple heterostructured carbon nanotubes (CNTs) over the entire surface of Ni-Al bimetallic nanowires (NWs) in the gas phase was developed. Polymer-templated bimetallic nitrate NWs were produced by electrospinning in the first step, and subsequent calcination resulted in the formation of bimetallic oxide NWs by thermal decomposition. In the second step, free-floating bimetallic NWs were produced by spray pyrolysis in an environment containing hydrogen gas as a reducing gas. These NWs were continuously introduced into a thermal CVD reactor in order to grow CNTs in the gas phase. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and Raman spectrometry analyses revealed that the catalytic Ni sites exposed in the non-catalytic Al matrix over the entire surface of the bimetallic NWs were seeded to radially