Fabrication and Characterization of Nanotemplated Carbon Monolithic Material

Fabrication and characterization of nanotemplated carbon monolithic material.

A novel hierarchical nanotemplated carbon monolithic rod (NTCM) was prepared using a novel facile nanotemplating approach. The NTCM was obtained using C60-fullerene modified silica gels as hard templates, which were embedded in a phenolic resin containing a metal catalyst for localized graphitization, followed by bulk carbonization, and template and catalyst removal. TEM, SEM, and BET measureme...

Synthesis and Characterization of LiMnPO4/Carbon Nanocomposite Material as Cathode Material

Development of an eco-friendly, low cost and high energy density LiMnPO4 cathode material has attracted much attention due to its high operating voltage vs. Li falling within the electrochemical stability window of conventional electrolyte solutions and offers more safety features due to the presence of a strong P-O covalent bond.Synthesis of battery materials integrates the...

Fabrication and characterization of branched carbon nanostructures

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have atomically smooth surfaces and tend not to form covalent bonds with composite matrix materials. Thus, it is the magnitude of the CNT/fiber interfacial strength that limits the amount of nanomechanical interlocking when using conventional CNTs to improve the structural behavior of composite materials through reinforcement. This arises from two well-known, long standi...

Fabrication and Characterization of Glassy Carbon MEMS

This paper describes the fabrication of free-standing high-carbon microstructures by softlithographic techniques; these structures ranged in complexity from simple beams to complex, suspended deflectors. Microstructures of polymeric precursors (copolymers of furfuryl alcohol-phenol) to high-carbon solids were fabricated using poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) molds. Carbonization of these microstru...

Monolithic microcavity with carbon nanotubes as active material