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Coating of SWNTs with Nickel by Electroless Plating Method

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This study considers a method for producing SWNTs reinforced lightweight metal-matrix composites. In this research, fluorination has been applied to achieve considerable improvement in the dispersion of purified single-walled carbon nanotubes. It has been demonstrated that surface fluorination is a possible approach to entrap catalytic nucleation centers along the walls of SWNTs. The results show that nickel could be successfully plated onto the activated surfaces of fluorinated SWNTs (F-SWNTs) through electroless plating which is an effective way for producing nanotube/metal systems. It was observed that high surface coverage of Pd-Sn catalytic nuclei is needed to form high quality coatings. A two-step approach was used and the coating mechanism is described in this paper.

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Materials Science Forum (Volumes 475-479)

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1013-1018

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.475-479.1013

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January 2005

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Qiang Zeng, Y. Bayazitoglu, Jiang Zhu, Kenneth Wilson, M. Ashraf Imam, Enrique V. Barrera

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Electroless Plating (EP), Fluorination, Nickel Ni, Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT)

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