Self-propagating high-temperature synthesis of nano-TiCx particles with different shapes by using carbon nano-tube as C source

Shenbao Jin; Ping Shen; Dongshuai Zhou; Qichuan Jiang

doi:10.1186/1556-276X-6-515

Self-propagating high-temperature synthesis of nano-TiCx particles with different shapes by using carbon nano-tube as C source

Nanoscale Res Lett. 2011 Aug 31;6(1):515. doi: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-515.

Authors

Shenbao Jin¹, Ping Shen, Dongshuai Zhou, Qichuan Jiang

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China. jqc@jlu.edu.cn.

Abstract

With using the carbon nano-tube (CNT) of high chemical activity, nano-TiCx particles with different growth shapes were synthesized through the self-propagating high temperature in the 80 wt.% metal (Cu, Al, and Fe)-Ti-CNT systems. The growth shapes of the TiCx particles are mainly octahedron in the Cu- and Al-Ti-CNT systems, while mainly cube- and sphere-like in the Fe-Ti-CNT system.