Structural Identification of interface properties in multi-component carbon-based materials by electron mycroscopy techniques

The project is focused on high structural identification of interface properties in multicomponents Carbon-based nanomaterials. The multicomponent assemblies can be considered as one class of nanomaterials modified at their external surface by attaching different nanocomponents via chemical bonds, Van der Walls interactions, or wrapping and so on. Here, our typical systems are mainly based on carbon nanotubes (CNT’s) coated or decorated by nanoparticles or by polymer in form of chains or globular structures. In a multicomponents nanomaterials chemical physics properties can be considerably affected by the interaction strength on the interface contact, and by the distribution and concentration of species over the entire CNT surface. Finally nano-morphology of foreign particles could be play a key role in material functional properties.