Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B (대한기계학회논문집B)

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Fabrication and Analysis of a Free-Standing Carbon Nanotube-Metal Hybrid Nanostructure

개별 수직성장된 나노튜브와 금속의 복합 구조체 제작 및 분석

  • 장원석 (한국기계연구원 나노역학연구실) ;
  • 황준연 (북택사스대 재료공학과) ;
  • 한창수 (고려대학교 기계공학과)
  • Received : 2011.05.25
  • Accepted : 2011.10.04
  • Published : 2012.01.01
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Abstract

The properties of carbon nanotube-metal hybrid nanostructures are critically dependent on the structure and chemistry of the metal-carbon nanotube interface. In this study, the interface between nickel and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has been investigated using physical vapor-deposited (sputter-deposited) nickel onto the surface of freestanding carbon nanotube arrays processed by nano-imprint lithography (NIL). These interfaces have been characterized by transmission electron microscopy and 3D atom probe tomography. In the nickel nanocrystals growing on the CNT surface, a metastable hexagonal $Ni_3C$-types phase appears to be stabilized. The structural stability of the nickel-CNT interface is also discussed and related to potential implications for the properties of these nanocomposites.

탄소나노튜브의 기계적 특성과 금속의 전기적 특성을 이용할 수 있는 나노 복합구조체의 특성은 두 재료 사이의 계면이 중용한 역할을 한다. 본 연구에서는 나노임프린트 패터닝을 이용하여 촉매금속을 패턴하고 이를 이용한 개별 성장된 탄소나노튜브 위에 증기증착법을 이용하여 니켈을 증착한 나노구 조체의 계면을 조사하였다. 이를 위하여 고해상의 투사전자현미경과 3 차원 원자 프로브 분석기를 이용하였다. 탄소나노튜브 위에서 성장된 나노결정의 경우 준 안정 상태인 조밀입방구조의 $Ni_3C$ 를 형성하는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 특성을 이용한 나노복합체의 응용가능성을 살펴보았다.

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