title: Fabrication of single-phase titanium carbide layers from MWCNTs using high DC pulse.
abstract: Single-phase layered titanium carbide (TiC) was successfully synthesized by reacting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) under a high direct current (DC) pulse. Single-phase TiC layer fabrication is confirmed as the transformation of multi-layered graphene from MWCNTs. Therefore its thickness and width is almost identical to those of transformed graphene layers. This is the first report on the formation of single-phase layered nano-TiC. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) were used for the characteristic analysis of single-phase layered TiC structures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nanotechnology, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea.
authors.forename: Woo Sik
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sook Young
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: Jeong Hoon
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sin Young
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Bang
authors.forename: Bong Geun
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Heon
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ham
authors.forename: Tohru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sekino
authors.forename: Kwang Bo
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Shim
mesh_terms: D004560:Electricity; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry*; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; C096521:titanium carbide; C009495:titanium dioxide; D014025:Titanium