Synthesis Characterization and Study of Properties of Metal Mn Carbon Nano Tubes

Abstract

In recent years, Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have highly attracted and continue to attract, considerable interest in a wide variety of scientific work or files. Especially well-arrayed CNTs are highly and greatly desired to make chemical sensors, flexible Nano level tools, Nano probes for scanning probe microscopy and field emitter devices (FED) etc. Carbon nanotubes have a number of extraordinary properties such as high electric conductivity, high thermal conductivity, high mechanical strength, tensile strength and thermal resistivity etc. Due to these such and desirable properties, they have extremely wide applications in Commercial and Research industries also. The properties of such types of carbon nanotubes can be further improved by use of metal to add in them. These metallic carbon nanotubes have gained prominence due to specific properties which can be further strengthened. newlineManganese carbon nanotubes have proven as good n-type semiconductors with high physical and chemical stability and high refractive index. They are widely used as photo catalysts, solar cells, sensors, self-cleaning and bactericidal actions. newlineThe Manganese carbon nanotubes are synthesized after decomposing at higher temperature by a simple process to use Egg albumin (White proteins) which acts as a gelling agent in the presence of manganese metal ion/metal salt solution. The Characterization of these manganese carbon nanotubes is carried out by Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), X ray Diffraction Analysis (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Tunneling Electron Microscopy (TEM), Infrared Spectroscopy (IR), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Photo Luminescence (PL) etc. newline