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Growth of carbon nanocoils using Fe–Sn–O catalyst film prepared by a spin-coating method

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Carbon nanocoils (CNCs) with diameter from 100 to 150 nm have been synthesized by catalytic decomposition of acetylene at 700 °C using Fe–Sn–O catalyst film prepared by a spin-coating method. The CNCs are much smaller in diameter than those synthesized using the catalysts prepared by a sol-gel method and a solution-dipping method. It is found that catalyst films with different morphologies are obtained by changing the spin-coating times, which lead to the formation of different multilayer carbon nanostructures, including CNCs/carbon layer/vertically aligned carbon nanotubes sandwich-like structures, and CNCs/carbon double-layer structures. Based on the experimental results, the growth mechanism of the multilayer carbon nanostructures has been proposed.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51072027), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. DUT11ZD102), and the Project for Scientific Researches of 2009 in Universities from the Education Department of Liaoning Province (No. 2009S016).

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Li, D., Pan, L. Growth of carbon nanocoils using Fe–Sn–O catalyst film prepared by a spin-coating method. Journal of Materials Research 26, 2024–2032 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2011.227

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