Patent ID: 9175385
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: B22F,B82Y,C23C

Abstract:
1. A method of preparing a metal-carbon composite of a core-shell structure, comprising: (S1) providing a metal precursor to a first vaporizer and an organic precursor to a second vaporizer for forming a carbon frame wherein the metal precursor is a precursor of a metal for forming a metal core of the core-shell structure, and the organic precursor is a precursor for forming a carbon shell surrounding the metal core and the carbon shell comprising at least one graphite layer, both the metal precursor and the organic precursor passing through the corresponding vaporizers in order to be supplied to a reactor in vaporized state; (S2) supplying each of the vaporized metal precursor and the vaporized organic precursor to a reactor by a respective carrier gas, while preventing the vaporized metal precursor and the vaporized organic precursor from contacting each other prior to introducing each of the vaporized precursors to the reactor by supplying the vaporized metal precursor through a first supply line passing from the first vaporizer to the reactor and simultaneously supplying the vaporized organic precursor through a second supply line passing from the second vaporizer to the reactor, the first and second supply lines separately connected to the reactor; (S3) heating the reactor and maintaining the reactor at a constant temperature to synthesize a metal-carbon composite; wherein the metal precursor is at least one selected from the group consisting of a platinum precursor, a palladium precursor, a nickel precursor, a molybdenum precursor and a gold precursor; and wherein the platinum (Pt) precursor is selected from the group consisting of trimethyl(methylcyclopentadienyl)platinum(IV)), platinum(II) acetylacetonate, tetrakis(trifluorophosphine) platinum(0), tetrakis-(triphenylphosphine)platinum(0), platinum(II) hexafluoroacetylacetonate, trimethyl-(methylcyclopentadienyl) platinum(IV) and (1,5-cyclooctadiene)dimethylplatinum(I); the palladium (Pd) precursor is palladium(II) acetate, hexafluoro-acetylacetonate palladium(II) or palladium(II) acetylacetonate; the nickel (Ni) precursor is nickel(II)acetylacetonate, bis(cyclopentadienyl) nickel, or tetrakis(trifluorophosphine)nickel; the molybdenum (Mo) precursor is molybdenum hexacarbonyl or molybdenum(V) chloride; and the gold (Au) precursor is methyl(triphenylphosphine)gold(I).