Incorporation of nanocrystalline silver on carbon nanotubes by electrodeposition technique

Abstract Nanocrystalline silver incorporated carbon nanotubes were grown on Si (001) substrate from an electrolytic bath containing acetonitrile (1% v/v) and water with appropriate amount of silver acetate at an applied d.c. potential ∼ 20 V. The films were characterized by measuring their microstructural properties, FTIR and Raman studies. HRTEM image indicated that the diameter of the nanotubes was ∼ 5 nm and the d spacing was ∼ 0.34 nm for (002) plane of CNT. With the addition of nanocrystalline silver, the intensity of G-band decreases while the D-band located ∼ 1352 cm− 1 becomes sharper.