Growth and characterization of self-assembled carbon nitride leaf-like nanostructures.

Autor: Li Yang, Paul W May, Lei Yin, Tom B Scott, James A Smith, Keith N Rosser
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Zdroj: Nanotechnology; Dec2006, Vol. 17 Issue 23, p5798-5804, 7p
Abstrakt: Carbon nitride nanostructures have been created using the novel technique of liquid phase pulsed laser ablation of a graphite target in ammonia solution. For ablation times between 1 and 7 h, 'leaf-shaped' nanostructures are formed by self-assembly of carbon nitride nanorods. With increasing ablation time, the crystallinity of the nanorod building blocks improves, and the length of the nanoleaf structures increases while the width remains constant. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results confirmed that nitrogen is chemically incorporated into the carbon network. The N-C (sp2) bonding increases with increasing ablation time, whereas the N-C (sp) and N-C (sp3) bonding behaviour is more complex. The optical properties for these leaf-like structures as a function of ablation time are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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