Hostname: page-component-6766d58669-7cz98 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-05-20T09:11:30.312Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Silicon Carbide Nanowire Heterostructures Constructed from Released Iron Catalysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Zhenyu Liu
Affiliation:
zhl28@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materails Science, 848 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, United States
Vesna Srot
Affiliation:
srot@mf.mpg.de, Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Heisenbergstrasse 3, Stuttgart, 70569, Germany
Peter A. van Aken
Affiliation:
vanaken@mf.mpg.de, Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Heisenbergstrasse 3, Stuttgart, 70569, Germany
Manfred Rühle
Affiliation:
ruehle@mf.mpg.de, Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Heisenbergstrasse 3, Stuttgart, 70569, Germany
Judith C. Yang
Affiliation:
jyang@engr.pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 848 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, United States
Get access

Abstract

Herein, we present the capability of creating silicon carbide (SiC) nanowires and branched nanostructures via a released cataltic process. Core-shell structured carbon-encapsulated iron nanoparticles were used as catalysts for SiC nanostructures formations by vapor-solid reaction. Various SiC nanostructures, including SiC nanocones, biaxial SiC-SiC composite nanowires, SiC-Fe-SiC junctions, Y, T branched SiC nanowires, and other complex heterostructures were observed from this process. It was demonstrated that the encapsulated iron could gradually migrate out of the carbon shell, and the released iron nanoparticles catalyzes the SiC nanostructures formation. Their morphologies and microstructures were investigated by different techniques, including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and their formation mechanisms are proposed.

Information

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2008

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable