Noble metals supported on carbon nanotubes using supercritical fluids for the preparation of composite materials: A look at the interface

摘要

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted great interest from scientific and industrial communities thanks to their remarkable properties. However, even if their mass production is nowadays well-known, the methods commonly used lead to bundles made of hundreds of single nanotubes with inert surface. Through the description of a simple, rapid and green procedure to uniformly decorate CNTs with metal nanoparticles (Ag, Pd), this paper presents a look at the CNTs-metal interface as a function of the functionalization technique.