Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 59, Issue 9, Pages 3313-3320Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2011.01.061
Keywords
Carbon nanotubes; Aluminum; Electroplating; Interface; Nanocomposite
Funding
- Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE) of Korea [70004134]
- STAR-faculty project
- MEST [R31-2008-000-10029-0]
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) [2010201010001A] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- Korea Institute of Industrial Technology(KITECH) [70004134] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The wetting of a metal on carbon nanotubes is fundamentally difficult due to the unusually large difference between their surface tensions and is a bottleneck for making metal carbon nanotube (CNT) composites. Here, we report a simple method to enhance the wettability of metal particles on the CNT surface by applying aluminum, which is the material with the largest surface tension. This method involves two steps: (i) Al nanoparticles are decorated on multiwalled carbon nanotubes by electroplating and (ii) Al powder is further spread on Al-electroplated CNTs, followed by high-temperature annealing to accommodate complete wetting of the aluminum. The large surface tension difference is overcome by forming strong Al C covalent bonds initiated by defects of the CNTs. The decrease in the D-band intensity, the G-band shift in the Raman spectroscopy and the formation of Al C covalent bonds, as confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, were in agreement with our structural model of CNT-vacancy-O-Al determined by density functional calculations. Crown Copyright (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc. All rights reserved.
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