Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10638251 | Materials Chemistry and Physics | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Thermal-heating chemical-vapor deposition has been used to synthesize Si3N4 nanotubes by heating tetra-ethyl-ortho-silicate at 165 °C to get vapor to flow in and providing nitrogen gas to the reaction chamber as the source of Si and N, respectively. A stainless-steel wire was coiled as entangled wire scaffold with a pore size of 1 mm. The wire scaffold was placed in the middle part of the reaction chamber. Cr, Fe and Mo, contained in the stainless-steel, served as catalysts to provide in situ growth of Si3N4 nanotubes on the coil surface at a relative low reactant temperature (1000 °C) through the vapor-liquid-solid growth mechanism. Most of the nanotubes are end-closed by a metallic particle. All the nanotubes were identified as α-Si3N4 in crystal structure.
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Authors
Feng-Huei Lin, Chung-King Hsu, Tzu-Piao Tang, Jinn-Shing Lee, Jia-Yu Lin, Pei-Leun Kang,