{"id":493,"date":"2017-06-17T18:09:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T22:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/?p=493"},"modified":"2017-06-17T18:09:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T22:09:19","slug":"catalyst-free-formation-of-vertically-aligned-carbon-nanorods-as-induced-by-nitrogen-incorporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/2017\/06\/17\/catalyst-free-formation-of-vertically-aligned-carbon-nanorods-as-induced-by-nitrogen-incorporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalyst-free formation of vertically-aligned carbon nanorods  as induced by nitrogen incorporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Catalyst-free-CNx-Nanorods2011.pdf\">Catalyst-free-CNx-Nanorods2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We found that nitrogen incorporation can induce the formation of vertically-aligned hydro-<br \/>\ngenated carbon nanorods without the use of catalysts. These nitrogen incorporated hydro-<br \/>\ngenated carbon nanorods (CNx:H) were synthesized by radio-frequency plasma-enhanced<\/p>\n<p>chemical vapor deposition (PE-CVD). We have evaluated the structural and chemical evolu-<br \/>\ntion of these CNx:H films as a function of the deposition duration by using high-resolution<\/p>\n<p>scanning electron microscopy (HRSEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy<\/p>\n<p>(HRTEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Auger electron spectroscopy.<\/p>\n<p>Results indicate that the incorporation of nitrogen is responsible to the formation of these<\/p>\n<p>nanorods. The alignment of the nanorods is enhanced at longer deposition period and is<\/p>\n<p>correlated to the increase in nitrogen contents and isonitrile bonds [\u2013N\u201eC] in the nano-<br \/>\nrods. The growth mechanism of this catalyst-free formation of nitrogen incorporated car-<br \/>\nbon nanorods is proposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalyst-free-CNx-Nanorods2011 We found that nitrogen incorporation can induce the formation of vertically-aligned hydro- genated carbon nanorods without the use of catalysts. These nitrogen incorporated hydro- genated carbon nanorods (CNx:H) were synthesized by radio-frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PE-CVD). We have evaluated the structural and chemical evolu- tion of these CNx:H films as a function of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,86,49,93,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","category-carbon","category-docs","category-nanorods","category-nitrogen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}