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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Optical and Morphological Properties of Carbon Nanotube—Anatase Nanocomposites: Improvements in Visible Absorbance

  AUTHORS: Marianna Barberio, P. Barone, A. Imbrogno, A. Bonanno, F. Xu

  KEYWORDS: Carbon Nanotubes; Anatase; Nanocomposites; Visible Absorbance

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Composite Materials, Vol.4 No.1, January 23, 2014

  ABSTRACT: In this work, we present the growth and optical characterization of carbon nanotube/TiO2 anatase nanocomposites. The composites are obtained by doping a bulk of anatase nanometric grains with different weight percentages of carbon nanotube (from 0.1% to 50%). We observe that only for tube concentrations between 0.1% and 2%, the growth process shows the formation of a matrix where carbon nanotubes are uniformed and dispersed in a bulk of TiO2 grains. Moreover, the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and surface morphology analysis (conducted from AFM images) indicated that the CNT absorption is a simple physisorption without chemical bonds formations between tube and dioxide. Finally, absorption in all the visible range has the increase of about 60% at very low concentration (2%) of carbon nanotubes.