Enhanced magnetization in unusual carbon-nanotube/carbon-foam cm-scale hybrid-buckypaper films with high α-Fe filling-ratio

J. Zhu; D. Liu; J. Wang; H. Yi; S. Wang; J. Wen; M. A.C. Willis; Y. Hou; J. Borowiec; F. S. Boi

doi:10.1039/c7ra02669b

Enhanced magnetization in unusual carbon-nanotube/carbon-foam cm-scale hybrid-buckypaper films with high α-Fe filling-ratio

J. Zhu, D. Liu, J. Wang, H. Yi, S. Wang, J. Wen, M. A.C. Willis, Y. Hou, J. Borowiec^*, F. S. Boi

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Sichuan University

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We report the synthesis of novel and unusual α-Fe-filled carbon nanotube (CNT)/carbon foam (CFM) hybrid-buckypaper films via pyrolysis of ferrocene/dichlorobenzene mixtures. The presence of a direct connection between the CFM and the CNT-buckypapers is found to significantly enhance the magnetization properties revealing room temperature saturation magnetizations as high as 73 emu g⁻¹. The magnetic properties of these films are compared to those typical of cm-scale horizontally aligned and randomly oriented Fe₃C-filled CNTs buckypapers and to those observed for Fe-filled and Ni-filled CFMs. This finding has a great significance in the field of ferromagnetically filled CNTs, since it implies that the properties of α-Fe-filled CFM can be combined with those of ferromagnetically filled CNTs in a single buckypaper-structure for possible future application as a microwave absorber. The properties of the obtained films are characterized in detail with scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and vibrating sample magnetometry.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	20604-20609
Number of pages	6
Journal	RSC Advances
Volume	7
Issue number	33
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ra02669b
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Enhanced magnetization in unusual carbon-nanotube/carbon-foam cm-scale hybrid-buckypaper films with high α-Fe filling-ratio

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