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Electrically Conducting Polymers As Templating Interfaces for Fabrication of Copper Nanotubes
Submicrometer tubes have been fabricated by a polymer-based
template
approach using electroless deposition. The copper was deposited on
polystyrene fibers functionalized with an interfacial electrically
conducting polyaniline thin film layer. Thermal degradation of the
functionalized fiber templates resulted in copper tubes of diameter
1600 ± 50 nm with wall thicknesses ranging between 100 and 200
nm. The morphology and elemental analysis of copper coaxial fibers
was analyzed using SEM and EDS. Electrical properties were analyzed
using FTIR and PXRD was used to study crystal structure of copper
nanotubes