@article{92360379dc7549da874ee6da7f2d729b,
title = "Decorating carbon nanotubes with nanostructured nickel particles via chemical methods",
abstract = "An alternative method for decorating carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with Ni nanoparticles is described. In this work our purpose is to establish a novel and low cost alternative route for coating the outer walls of multiwalled CNTs with metals such as Ni. Using nanotubes during the dissociation of nickel nitrate upon dehydration, it is possible to obtain nanostructured nickel oxide. After reduction of this metal oxide in H2 nickel nanoparticles are obtained and randomly anchored to the surface of nanotubes. Comparative experiments were carried out using pure and nitrogen-containing CNTs. A detailed characterization of the products is also presented.",
author = "P. Ayala and Freire, {F. L.} and L. Gu and David Smith and Sol{\'o}rzano, {I. G.} and Macedo, {D. W.} and Sande, {J. B Vander} and H. Terrones and J. Rodriguez-Manzo and M. Terrones",
note = "Funding Information: The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Brazilian Agencies: CNPq through CIAM and CTEnergia programs and FAPERJ, as well as the National Science Foundation (US) Grant DMR-0303429. We gratefully acknowledge the use of facilities within the John Cowley Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy at Arizona State University (USA). This work was also sponsored by CONACYT-Mexico grants: 45762 (HT), 45772 (MT), 41464-Inter American Collaboration (MT), 42428-Inter American Collaboration (HT), 2004-01-013/SALUD-CONACYT(MT), PUE-2004-CO2-9 Fondo Mixto de Puebla (MT) and Ph.D. Scholarship (JARM). P.A. thanks T.Pichler from IFW-Dresden for fruitful discussions.",
year = "2006",
month = nov,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1016/j.cplett.2006.09.039",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "431",
pages = "104--109",
journal = "Chemical Physics Letters",
issn = "0009-2614",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "1-3",
}