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CHEMISTRY AND MATERIAL SCIENCE
Capillary filling of carbon nanotubes by BiCl$_3$: TEM and MD insight
E. A. Anumola, F. L. Deepaka, A. N. Enyashinb a Nanostructured Materials Group, Department of Advanced Electron Microscopy, Imaging
and Spectroscopy, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, Portugal
b Institute of Solid State Chemistry UB RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Abstract:
Among numerous trichlorides, the melt of BiCl$_3$ is a distinctly molecular liquid with a relatively low melting point, yet, with a high surface tension. Therefore, the attractiveness of a simple capillary filling technique for fabrication of nanosized BiCl$_3$ by dispersion within a nanocapillary needs a special investigation. Here, we report the successful synthesis and the transmission electron microscopy characterization of the hybrids consisting of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and endohedral BiCl$_3$ crystallites. The main peculiarities of imbibition into carbon nanotubes and an intricate internal organization of molten BiCl$_3$ are established using the developed 4-site force-field model of BiCl$_3$ and consequent molecular dynamics simulations at nanosecond time scale.
Keywords:
Bismuth trichloride, carbon nanotubes, capillary, TEM characterization, MD simulations.
Received: 18.07.2018
Citation:
E. A. Anumol, F. L. Deepak, A. N. Enyashin, “Capillary filling of carbon nanotubes by BiCl$_3$: TEM and MD insight”, Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, 9:4 (2018), 521–531
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