Problems
of the creation of nanoreactors for the synthesis of metallic
nanoparticles in carbon shells
A.M.
Lipanov, V.I. Kodolov, N.V. Khokhriakov,
A.A. Didik, V.V. Kodolova, N.V. Semakina
Basic Research
– High educational center of chemical physics and mesoscopy
Udmurt scientific center, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences
34, T. Baramzina St., Izhevsk, 426067, Russia
e-mail: kodol@istu.udm.ru
Abstract
For the synthesis of metallic nanoparticles and nanowires in carbon
shells, it is expedient to use the metal ions that can be reduced in
nanoreactors by the interaction with the negatively charged walls of
nanoreactors. The synthesis is a reduction-oxidation process,
therefore aromatic hydrocarbons or organic polymers together with
metal salts are reduction-oxidation pairs. Within the framework of
Hartree-Fock theory with the minimal basis 3-21 G, the energies of
molecules and molecular fragments are calculated. In this energy
model, the equilibrium atomic geometry of the fragments and the
interaction energy of the reaction centers are determined.
The modeling results are realized in the experiments starting with
mixing melts or solutions of the
3d metal chlorides (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) with aromatic
hydrocarbons or polyvinyl alcohol solution.
Heating of the reaction masses up to 400C is carried out in a
step-like manner. The control over the processes is performed using
spectral, microscopic and chemical methods. Nanoproducts are studied
with the use of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission
electron and scanning electron microscopy, diffractometry and the
method of electron microdiffraction. Depending on the conditions of
the process, giant fullerenes and tubulenes inclusive of metals and
metal-containing compounds are formed.
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