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Nickel Based Electrospun Materials with Tuned Morphology and Composition
Nickel is set to play a crucial role to substitute the less-abundant platinum in clean electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices and catalysis. The controlled design of Ni nanomaterials is essential to fine-tune their properties to match these applications. A systematic study of electros...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302718/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28335364 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano6120236 |
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author | Ercolano, Giorgio Farina, Filippo Cavaliere, Sara Jones, Deborah J. Rozière, Jacques |
author_facet | Ercolano, Giorgio Farina, Filippo Cavaliere, Sara Jones, Deborah J. Rozière, Jacques |
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description | Nickel is set to play a crucial role to substitute the less-abundant platinum in clean electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices and catalysis. The controlled design of Ni nanomaterials is essential to fine-tune their properties to match these applications. A systematic study of electrospinning and thermal post-treatment parameters has been performed to synthesize Ni materials and tune their morphology (fibers, ribbons, and sponge-like structures) and composition (metallic Ni, NiO, Ni/C, Ni(3)N and their combinations). The obtained Ni-based spun materials have been characterized by scanning and transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and thermogravimetric analysis. The possibility of upscaling and the versatility of electrospinning open the way to large-scale production of Ni nanostructures, as well as bi- and multi-metal systems for widened applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-53027182017-03-21 Nickel Based Electrospun Materials with Tuned Morphology and Composition Ercolano, Giorgio Farina, Filippo Cavaliere, Sara Jones, Deborah J. Rozière, Jacques Nanomaterials (Basel) Article Nickel is set to play a crucial role to substitute the less-abundant platinum in clean electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices and catalysis. The controlled design of Ni nanomaterials is essential to fine-tune their properties to match these applications. A systematic study of electrospinning and thermal post-treatment parameters has been performed to synthesize Ni materials and tune their morphology (fibers, ribbons, and sponge-like structures) and composition (metallic Ni, NiO, Ni/C, Ni(3)N and their combinations). The obtained Ni-based spun materials have been characterized by scanning and transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and thermogravimetric analysis. The possibility of upscaling and the versatility of electrospinning open the way to large-scale production of Ni nanostructures, as well as bi- and multi-metal systems for widened applications. MDPI 2016-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5302718/ /pubmed/28335364 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano6120236 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ercolano, Giorgio Farina, Filippo Cavaliere, Sara Jones, Deborah J. Rozière, Jacques Nickel Based Electrospun Materials with Tuned Morphology and Composition |
title | Nickel Based Electrospun Materials with Tuned Morphology and Composition |
title_full | Nickel Based Electrospun Materials with Tuned Morphology and Composition |
title_fullStr | Nickel Based Electrospun Materials with Tuned Morphology and Composition |
title_full_unstemmed | Nickel Based Electrospun Materials with Tuned Morphology and Composition |
title_short | Nickel Based Electrospun Materials with Tuned Morphology and Composition |
title_sort | nickel based electrospun materials with tuned morphology and composition |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302718/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28335364 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano6120236 |
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