Mössbauer transmission and back scattered conversion electron study of Fe nanowires encapsulated in multiwalled carbon nanotubes.

Autor: Ruskov, T., Asenov, S., Spirov, I., Garcia, C., Mönch, I., Graff, A., Kozhuharova, R., Leonhardt, A., Mühl, T., Ritschel, M., Schneider, C. M., Groudeva-Zotova, S.
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Physics; 12/15/2004, Vol. 96 Issue 12, p7514-7518, 5p, 2 Black and White Photographs, 2 Charts, 5 Graphs
Abstrakt: 57Fe transmission Mössbauer spectroscopy (TMS) and back scattered conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy (CEMS) measurements were carried out on Fe-filled multiwalled carbon nanotubes (Fe-MWCNTs) grown by chemical vapor deposition with ferrocene as precursor. Samples of Fe-MWCNTs material deposited on the inner wall of the quartz tube reactor and samples of aligned Fe-MWCNTs grown perpendicularly to the oxidized Si substrate were characterised by the TMS method. The data show that Fe phases encapsulated within the carbon nanotubes comprise α-Fe, γ-Fe, and Fe3C in different percentage ratio depending on the sample preparation. These results are in a good accordance with the previously measured magnetic characteristics and with the structural data found by x-ray diffraction as well by selected area electron diffraction methods and allow a new complementary characterization of the Fe(Fe-alloy)-MWCNT systems. The CEMS method applied for the characterization of metal containing MWCNTs reveals that close to the top surface of the aligned Fe-MWCNTs samples only the γ-Fe phase is found. This technique shows an additional potential for further investigation of the spatial distribution of the crystalline phases in the depth of aligned Fe-MWCNT samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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