Basic Research--Higher Education Center of Chemical Physics and Mesoscopy at Presidium of Udmurt Scientifc Center, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, together with Izhevsk State Technical University and OAO Izhevsk Electromekhanicheskii Zavod – KUPOL (Izhevsk Electro-mechanical Plant) have produced a number of unconventional carbon and carbon-polymeric metal-containing nanostructures (C-CP-MNS) possessing magnetic properties and highly active when modifying a wide range of inorganic and organic polymeric composites. Depending on the conditions of forming polymeric matrixes in nanoreactors, nanoparticles of various shapes have been obtained with an average size of 25 nm.

C-CP-MNS have been obtained in nanoreactors of polymeric matrixes using mechanical and chemical way of interaction of metal-containing and polymeric phases with further thermal and chemical treatment in narrow temperature ranges, within which the structuring occurs, with the formation of two-dimensional and three-dimensional nanostructures. Depending on the metal and polymeric matrix nature, various nanostructures have been obtained, such as copper-containing nanocrystals or nanowires in carbon shells, Ni/C nanocomposites in the form of nanorods or nanotubes, Co/C chain nanosystems and ironcontaining “nanobeads”. Nanocomposites possess magnetic susceptibility and are active modifers to the materials.

Fig. 1. Copper nanoparticles and carbon nanofbres.

Fig. 2. Iron/carbon nanocomposites.