A “Chemical-Scissors-Assemble” Route to Titanium Carbide Nanorods

Abstract

Abstract By using tetrachloroethylene (C2Cl4), metallic titanium powders and N-containing nucleophilic solvents, such as ethylenediamine (en), pyridine and diethylamine as raw materials, a new strategy, called “chemical-scissors-assemble” route, is explored to prepare TiC nanorods, in which nucleophilic solvent attacks at the carbon in tetrachloroethylene to remove the chlorine groups and produce free C2, which can assemble into one-dimensional conjugate carbon chain clusters, and then react with Ti powders and result in a one-dimensional structure of TiC nanorods.