Gaseous Nanocarving‐Mediated Carbon Framework with Spontaneous Metal Assembly for Structure‐Tunable Metal/Carbon Nanofibers |
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Authors: | Dae‐Hyun Nam Sungwoo Lee Young‐Joo Lee Jun‐Hyun Jo Euijoon Yoon Kyung‐Woo Yi Gun‐Do Lee Young‐Chang Joo |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;2. Research Institute of Advanced Materials (RIAM), Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | Vapor phase carbon (C)‐reduction‐based syntheses of C nanotubes and graphene, which are highly functional solid C nanomaterials, have received extensive attention in the field of materials science. This study suggests a revolutionary method for precisely controlling the C structures by oxidizing solid C nanomaterials into gaseous products in the opposite manner of the conventional approach. This gaseous nanocarving enables the modulation of inherent metal assembly in metal/C hybrid nanomaterials because of the promoted C oxidation at the metal/C interface, which produces inner pores inside C nanomaterials. This phenomenon is revealed by investigating the aspects of structure formation with selective C oxidation in the metal/C nanofibers, and density functional theory calculation. Interestingly, the tendency of C oxidation and calculated oxygen binding energy at the metal surface plane is coincident with the order Co > Ni > Cu > Pt. The customizable control of the structural factors of metal/C nanomaterials through thermodynamic‐calculation‐derived processing parameters is reported for the first time in this work. This approach can open a new class of gas–solid reaction‐based synthetic routes that dramatically broaden the structure‐design range of metal/C hybrid nanomaterials. It represents an advancement toward overcoming the limitations of intrinsic activities in various applications. |
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Keywords: | catalytic carbon combustion gaseous nanocarving hollow and porous carbon metal assembly selective oxidation |
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