An Affordable Wet Chemical Route to Grow Conducting Hybrid Graphite-Diamond Nanowires: Demonstration by A Single Nanowire Device.

ABSTRACT: We report an affordable wet chemical route for the reproducible hybrid graphite-diamond nanowires (G-DNWs) growth from cysteamine functionalized diamond nanoparticles (ND-Cys) via pH induced self-assembly, which has been visualized through SEM and TEM images. Interestingly, the mechanistic aspects behind that self-assembly directed G-DNWs formation was discussed in details. Notably, above self-assembly was validated by AFM and TEM data. Further interrogations by XRD and Raman data were revealed the possible graphite sheath wrapping over DNWs. Moreover, the HR-TEM studies also verified the coexistence of less perfect sp² graphite layer wrapped over the sp³ diamond carbon and the impurity channels as well. Very importantly, conductivity of hybrid G-DNWs was verified via

SUBMITTER: Shellaiah M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5593905 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature