CHROMIUM-CONTAINING METALLIC FIBERS CONFINED WITHIN CARBON NANOTUBES - POSSIBILITY OF TEMPLATE-MEDIATED CRYSTAL-GROWTH

Authors
OKUYAMA F OGASAWARA I
Citation
F. Okuyama et I. Ogasawara, CHROMIUM-CONTAINING METALLIC FIBERS CONFINED WITHIN CARBON NANOTUBES - POSSIBILITY OF TEMPLATE-MEDIATED CRYSTAL-GROWTH, Applied physics letters, 71(5), 1997, pp. 623-625
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
71
Issue
5
Year of publication
1997
Pages
623 - 625
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1997)71:5<623:CMFCWC>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
So-called ''anode activation'' is shown to entail the growth of metall ic fibers with nanometric dimensions. These fibers grow from dendritic deposits comprised of carbon and chromium, and thus chromium is a maj or component. They are confined inside thin-wall carbon nanotubes, wit h their diameter defined by the inner diameter of the host nanotube. T his growth behavior reflects a template-mediated type of fiber growth. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.