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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 115, Issue 9, Pages 3737-3744Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp112141f
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- NRF [2010-001-9127, 2010-000-0181, 2010-0007815]
- IITA [2008-C1090-0804-0013]
- WCU [R31-10035]
- MOST
- POSTECH
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information [KSC-2008-S03-0008]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2010-0007815] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Nitrogen (N)-doped graphitic layers were uniformly synthesized as shells on pregrown Si nanowires by chemical vapor deposition. The N content (<= 10 atomic %) and thickness (<= 50 nm) of the graphitic layers were finely controlled by adjusting the deposition conditions. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy revealed that pyridine-like N structures become favorable as the N content increases. For maximum 10% doping, pyridine-like N structures produced selectively at the highly curved graphitic layers of the thinner shell, whereas graphite-like N structures remain dominant at the less curved graphitic layers of the thicker shell. Raman spectroscopy supports the controlled and selective growth of these two N structures upon the change of the shell thickness and N content. The first principles calculation of the carbon nanotube (CNT) and graphene suggests that, for the CNT isomers, the pyridine-like structures, which are characterized by divacancies around the doped N sites, become more favorable than the graphite-like ones at a higher doping level. The preference of the pyridine-like structures reduces at the graphene isomers, which strongly supports the experimental results.
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