Novel Solid Silicon Oxycarbide Unmodified Carbon Nanotube Composite Coating: Structure, Topography and Mechanical Properties

Autor: Michał Szuwarzyński, Wiktor Niemiec, Elżbieta Długoń, Maria Owińska, Anna Ferenc
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Coatings, Vol 11, Iss 920, p 920 (2021)
Coatings
Volume 11
Issue 8
ISSN: 2079-6412
Popis: A silicon oxycarbide-carbon nanotube coating on steel was synthesized using a novel approach utilizing unmodified carbon nanotubes (CNT), silane surfactant and large monomer-based silsesquioxane sol. This enabled the creation of very stable carbon nanotube dispersion, which in turn resulted in homogenous layers obtained in a simple dip-coating process. The samples were annealed in 800 °C in argon to obtain a uniform glassy silicon oxycarbide-based composite from a silsesquioxane precursor. The layers’ morphology and nanomechanical properties were investigated using a number of methods, including infrared spectroscopy (IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), nanoindentation, Accelerated Property Mapping (XPM) and Quantitative Nanomechanical Mapping—an Atomic Force Microscopy method (QNM-AFM).
Databáze: OpenAIRE