Preparation and application of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and metal cobalt nanoparticles composite carbon fiber electrodes

ABSTRACT

Carbon nanotubes and cobalt nano-particles were compounded to the surface of the carbon fiber by the vapor deposition method and the electrochemical deposition method respectively. In this study, novel Co@carbon nanotubes (CNTs)@carbon fiber (CF) composites were fabricated to be electrode by a simple and facile approach. It increases the specific surface area, conductivity and catalytic activity of carbon fiber electrode. It can be used to detect nitrate ions.

KEYWORDS:

• Carbon fiber electrode
• catalytic
• composite electrode

Funding

This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21574072, 21675091), the Taishan Young Scholar Program of Shandong Province (tsqn20161027), the Key Research and Development Project of Shandong Province (2016GGX102028, 2016GGX102039, 2017GGX20111), the Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program (J15LC20), the People's Livelihood Science and Technology Project of Qingdao (166257nsh, 173378nsh), the Innovation Leader Project of Qingdao (168325zhc), the Postdoctoral Scientific Research Foundation of China (2014M561886, 2015T80695), the Postdoctoral Scientific Research Foundation of Qingdao, and the First Class Discipline Project of Shandong Province.