The Effect of Catalysts merged with alumina on the Growing Characteristics of Carbon Nanotubes using AAO templates

  • Lee, In-Wha (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Lee, Tae-Young (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Yang, Ji-Hoon (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Ha, Byoung-Ho (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Yoo, Ji-Beom (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Kim, Seong-Kyu (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Park, Chong-Yun (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured composites, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Published : 2002.08.21

Abstract

Porous anodic aluminum oxide(AAO) templates prepared by anodizing method were used for growing multiwalled carbon nanotubes(CNTs). AAO templates with the homogeneous pore diameter and length were obtained by two step anodizing technique. Using AAO templates, vertically well-ordered two-dimensional carbon nanotube arrays were fabricated. We investigated the field emission property of CNTs grown using different catalyst metals in vacuum chamber (<$10^{-7}$ Torr) on AAO Template. To explain the different emission property, the surface reaction between catalysts and alumina pores which inserted carbon species of $C_2H_2$ using High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) was studied.

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