Preparation of cobalt hexacyanoferrate nanowires using carbon nanotubes as templates

Lei Qian; Xiurong Yang

doi:10.1016/j.talanta.2005.11.053

Preparation of cobalt hexacyanoferrate nanowires using carbon nanotubes as templates

Talanta. 2006 Jun 15;69(4):957-62. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2005.11.053. Epub 2006 Jan 18.

Authors

Lei Qian¹, Xiurong Yang

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Remin Street 5625, Changchun Jilin 130022, China; Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.

PMID: 18970664
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2005.11.053

Abstract

A simple and convenient method for preparation of cobalt hexacyanoferrate (CoHCF) nanowires by electrodeposition was reported. Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were used as templates to fabricate CoHCF nanowires. MWNTs could affect the size of CoHCF nanoparticles and made them grow on the sidewalls of carbon nanotubes during the process of electrodeposition. Thus CoHCF nanowires could be obtained by this method. Field-emission scanning electron microscopy, UV-vis spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were used to characterize these nanowires. These results showed the CoHCF nanowires could be easily and successfully obtained and it gave a novel approach to prepare inorganic nanowires.