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Study on high-pressure behaviour of spherical carbon black nanoparticles with core–shell structure

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We report the behaviour of carbon black (CB) nanoparticles (spherical carbon shells), subjected to external pressure, using diamond anvil cell at synchrotron facility. CB nanoparticles have been synthesized by lamp black method using olive oil as combustion precursor and ferrocene as an organometallic additive. The catalyst-assisted CB has an iron oxide (γ-Fe2O3) core and amorphous carbon shell (i.e. core–shell structure). Our present study suggests that the carbon shells are partially transparent to the applied high pressure, and result in the reduction of effective pressure that gets transferred to the iron oxide core. High-pressure Raman spectroscopy results indicate that the surrounding carbon shells get compressed with pressure and this change is reversible. However, no structural transformation was observed till the highest applied pressure (25 GPa). The Raman spectroscopy results also suggests that the carbon shells are less pressure sensitive as their pressure coefficients (dω/dP) of G-peak were calculated (3.79 cm−1/GPa) to be less than that for other carbon allotropes.

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Acknowledgements

Authors would like to thank M. H. Modi and P. K. Yadav, Soft X-ray Applications Laboratory, RRCAT, Indore, India for their help in plasma oxidation of core–shell samples. Authors are grateful to T. R. Ravindran, Materials Science Group, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India for his help regarding Raman spectroscopy experimentation and important discussions. RRCAT, Indore is acknowledged for providing the Indus synchrotron facilities.

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  1. UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kalpakkam Node, Kokilamedu, 603104, India

    Surakanti Srinivas Reddy & G. M. Bhalerao

  2. University of Madras, Chennai, 600005, India

    Surakanti Srinivas Reddy

  3. Condensed Matter Physics Division, Materials Science Group, IGCAR, HBNI, Kalpakkam, 603102, India

    Balmukund Shukla, Soumee Chakraborty & N. V. Chandra Shekar

  4. High Pressure and Synchrotron Radiation Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, HBNI, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India

    V. Srihari

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Reddy, S.S., Shukla, B., Chakraborty, S. et al. Study on high-pressure behaviour of spherical carbon black nanoparticles with core–shell structure. Carbon Lett. 32, 1337–1344 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-022-00355-5

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