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1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University,
Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, ROC, 300
2 Materials Science Center, National Tsing-Hua University,
Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, ROC, 300
3 Material Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute,
Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, 310
| In this study, multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were synthesized by the thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. Various chemical compounds such as benzene, xylene, cyclohexane, and n-hexane were used for carbon precursor, and ferrocene and thiophene were adopted as catalyst and promoter, respectively. Microstructure of the as-grown MWNTs was examined by XRD and FESEM. The MWNTs were adopted for fabricating electrodes of the secondary lithium ion batteries, and the electrochemical properties of the coin half-cells were measured. The influences of the MWNTs synthesized by different precursors on the electrochemical properties will be investigated. |
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