Preparation and characterization of multiwall carbon nanotubes decorated with zinc oxide

Mohamed Morsy, Magdy Helal, Mohamed El-Okr, Medhat Ibrahim
2015 Scholars Research Library Der Pharma Chemica   unpublished
Multiwall carbon nanotubes MWCNTs were synthesized then decorated with ZnO. The decorated ZnO was grown on the surface of MWCNTs via simple wet chemical route. The prepared MWCNTs/ZnO composite was characterized by X-ray diffraction, EDS, HRTEM, FTIR as well as thermal analysis. Zinc oxide with about 30 nm as confirmed by HRTEM and XRD could be described as wurtzite hexagonal crystalline structure. The HRTEM results showed that the MWCNTs were uniformly decorated with ZnO nanoparticles with
more » ... ly no agglomeration. The cooperative behavior between MWCNTs and ZnO gives rise to the production of advanced functional materials with a wide range of applications.
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