Fabrication and chemical etching of Ag/C nanocables.
In this paper, Ag/C nanocables were synthesized via a one-step simple hydrothermal route by using glucose as reducing agent and carbon source, AgNO3 as silver source. The products are characterized in detail by multiform techniques: X-ray diffraction, energy-dispersive X-ray analysis, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy. The results show that the obtained products are coaxial nanocables with lengths of several micrometers, about 200-500 nm in diameter, and a surrounding sheath about 80-100 nm in thickness. Different products including carbonaceous nanotubes and nanocables with fragmentary Ag core were obtained by adjusting time of chemical etching.
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, PR China.
Xu Chun
XC
Song
Yi Fan
YF
Zheng
Gang
G
Liu
Yong
Y
Zhang