Formation and transformation of carbon-encapsulated iron carbide/iron nanorods

A comparative study of electrochemical properties of two kinds of carbon nanotubes as anode materials for lithium ion batteries

“…The details can be seen elsewhere [13]. Carbon-encapsulated iron carbide/iron nanorods were synthesized by co-carbonization of an aromatic heavy oil and ferrocene at 450 • C under autogenous pressure and the solvent extraction by pyridine in order to remove the dissoluble pyrolytic components.…”

Formation of Carbon Nanostructures During Chemical Demineralization of Indian Coals

“…Finally, the presence of iron in the feed coal may act as a catalyst and the silicon present in the coal may act as a substrate for the formation of nanorods. It is also reported in the literature that the presence of iron and silicon enhances the formation fullerene-like structures [9,10].…”

“…Qiu et al have produced doublewalled carbon nanotubes from coal in a hydrogen-free atmosphere for the first time [8]. It has also been reported that alkali digestion enhances the formation of fullerene-like structures [9,10]. All these literature studies suggest the possibility of the formation of nanostructures during coal demineralization by alkali treatment.…”

Growth of carbon encapsulated long nickel nanorods on bulk nickel substrate

“…Many researches in this area are clearly driven by the potential applications such as electromagnetic fields [1][2][3][4][5] , lubrication [6] , sensors [7] , catalysis [8] , targeted therapy and drug deliver and controllable release [9,10] . So far, various methods have been employed to the synthesis of CNTM, such as standard or modified arc charge techniques [11] , pyrolysis of metallorganics [12] , catalytic or plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) [4,5,13,14] and catalytic carbonization [15][16][17] . However, these techniques are apparently not suitable for producing CNTM in large quantities.…”