Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured titanium carbide for fuel cell applications

Journal Article · Wed Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4945187· OSTI ID:22591083

Singh, Paviter; Singh, Harwinder; Singh, Bikramjeet; Kaur, Manpreet; Kaur, Gurpreet; Kumar, Akshay ^[1]; Kumar, Manjeet ^[2]; Bala, Rajni ^[3]

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1. Advanced Functional Material Laboratory, Department of Nanotechnology,, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib-140 406 Punjab (India)
2. Department of Materials Engineering, Defense Institute of Advanced Technology (DU), Pune-411 025 (India)
3. Department of Mathematics Punjabi University Patiala-147 002 Punjab (India)

Titanium carbide (TiC) nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized by carbo-thermic reaction of titanium and acetone at 800 °C. This method is relatively low temperature synthesis route. It can be used for large scale production of TiC. The synthesized nanoparticles have been characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and differential thermal analyzer (DTA) techniques. XRD analysis confirmed the formation of single phase TiC. XRD analysis confirmed that the particles are spherical in shape with an average particle size of 13 nm. DTA analysis shows that the phase is stable upto 900 °C and the material can be used for high temperature applications.

• OSTI ID: 22591083
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1724, Issue 1; Conference: ETMN-2015: 2. international conference on emerging technologies: Micro to nano 2015, Rajasthan (India), 24-25 Oct 2015; Other Information: (c) 2016 Author(s); Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ACETONE
DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS
FUEL CELLS
NANOPARTICLES
NANOSTRUCTURES
PARTICLE SIZE
SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
SYNTHESIS
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
TITANIUM
TITANIUM CARBIDES
X-RAY DIFFRACTION