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From helical nanowires, nanocrosses to aligned micro-carbon fibers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Hai-Feng Zhang ,
Chong-Min Wang ,
James S. Young ,
James E. Coleman  and
Lai-Sheng Wang
Hai-Feng Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Washington State University, 2710 University Drive, Richland, WA 99352, USA W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352, USA
Chong-Min Wang
Affiliation:
W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352, USA
James S. Young
Affiliation:
W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352, USA
James E. Coleman
Affiliation:
W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352, USA
Lai-Sheng Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Washington State University, 2710 University Drive, Richland, WA 99352, USA W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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Abstract

We successfully synthesized helical core-shell crystalline SiC/SiO2 nanowires, core-shell crystalline SiC/C nano-crosses and well-aligned core-shell crystalline SiC/C fibers by using a chemical vapor deposition technique. For the helical crystalline SiC/SiO2 nanowires, the SiC core typically has diameters of 10-40 nm with a helical periodicity of 40-80 nm and is covered by a uniform layer of 30-60 nm thick amorphous SiO2. Detailed structural characterizations suggested that the growth of this novel structure was induced by screw dislocations on the nanometer scale. For the core-shell nanocrosses, the crystalline SiC core typically has diameters of 10 to 40 nm and is covered by a uniform layer of 80-110 nm graphitic carbon. The wellaligned SiC/C fibers were shown to be formed by two sequential steps: catalytic SiC growth and graphitic carbon nano-sheets coating. The helical nanowires and core-shell nanocrosses may have potential applications in nano-electronics. The formation mechanism of the carbon fibers suggested that fabrication of field emission filament carbon nano-fibers may be realized by using the aligned crystalline nanowires as templates.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 776: Symposium Q – Unconventional Approaches to Nanostructures with Applications in Electronics, Photonics, Information Storage and Sensing , 2003 , Q7.2
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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