Carbon nanofibers as supports for metal nanoparticles

Atomic layer deposition of Pd nanoparticles on self-supported carbon-Ni/NiO-Pd nanofiber electrodes for electrochemical hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions

“…The morphologies and the dispersion of the metal NPs into/onto CNFs can be controlled by tuning the metal slat-to-polymer ratio [35]. Transition-metal NPs supported on three types of CNFs (platelet, tubular, herringbone) and nitrogendoped CNFs can be fabricated by pyrolysis of metal carbonyl clusters and alkene complexes [40]. The size of the immobilized metal NPs can be controlled, and their location (e.g., on the edge of the graphite layers, in the tubes and on the surface, and between the layers and on the edge) is dependent on the CNF nanostructure [40].…”