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Materials Today: Proceedings 12 (2019) 590–595
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Spectroscopic Study of Large-Scale Synthesized,
Nitrogen-doped carbon Nanotubes using Spray Pyrolysis
Technique
Nitin Dwivedi
*
, Divyanshi Srivastava
*
, Rajesh Kumar Shukla*, Anchal Srivastava
**
*Department of Physics, University of Lucknow, Lucknow-226007, India
**Department of Physics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India
Abstract
Highly pure and aligned nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes were synthesized by catalytic spray pyrolysis technique at
850
o
C using precursor; acetonitrile and ferrocene solution. Precursor solution with different concentrations of
ferrocene in acetonitrile was introduced into the horizontally aligned reactor at a constant flow rate (~1ml/min) with
Ar gas serving as the carrier (~50/500l/h). An optimum concentration of ferrocene in acetonitrile is 5mg/ ml. The
structure of the synthesized N-CNTs was investigated by means of microscopic (SEM) as well as spectroscopic
(FTIR, Raman, XRD, UV-Vis) techniques. The results show that the prepared N-doped CNTs have a uniform
structure and high yield of N-CNTs is obtained.
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Keywords: Nitrogen Doping CNTs, Spray Pyrolysis, FTIR, Raman, SEM, XRD, UV-Visible.
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Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the National Conference on Materials and Devices, NCMD-2018.