Fig. 8: Steps of carbon nanowire fabrication. | Microsystems & Nanoengineering

Fig. 8: Steps of carbon nanowire fabrication.

From: Fabrication of patterned graphitized carbon wires using low voltage near-field electrospinning, pyrolysis, electrodeposition, and chemical vapor deposition

Fig. 8: Steps of carbon nanowire fabrication.

a Electromechanical spinning of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) solution onto a rotating collector to obtain patterned polymer wire deposition. b Pyrolysis of stabilized PAN wires inside a furnace to get pyrolytic carbon. c Nickel electroplating of the carbon structures to form a catalytic surface for the subsequent chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphitic carbon. d chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphitic carbon.

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