Abstract
We demonstrate synthesis, electrical and magnetic characterization of silicon carbo-nitride (SiCN) coated multiwalled carbon nanotubes in a core-shell structure. The core formed by a carbon nanotube had a diameter in the range of 10-100 nm. The shell was synthesized by pyrolysis of an SiCN precursor on the surface of carbon nanotubes. Electrical resistivity of an individual composite nanotube was measured to be ~ 2.55 × 103 Ω cm. The magnetic measurements performed by a superconducting quantum interference device on the composite nanotubes in the temperature range of 5-300 K show a reduced coercive field with increasing temperatures. The monolayer thick coating of an ultra high temperature multifunctional ceramic SiCN makes these composite nanotubes very promising for sensing applications in harsh environments.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2435-2438 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Materials Letters |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue number | 28 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 30 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:G Singh would like to thank Mr. John McIntosh for FIB training. Thanks are due to Professor William T Reynolds Jr. for an NCFL mini-grant to G Singh. The author S.P would like to gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) . Authors would also like to thank Kion Specialty Polymers™ for providing the free Ceraset™ sample. The authors M. R. Hossu and A. R. Koymen would like to acknowledge the support from Welch Grant Y-1215 .
Keywords
- Carbon nanotubes
- Focused ion beam
- Magnetization
- Nanomanipulation
- SiCN
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