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Synthesis of high purity single-walled carbon nanotubes in high yield
Junfeng Geng1, Charanjeet Singh, Douglas S Shephard
1Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK CB2 1EW.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 4, 2003
Abstract:
A simple method for the synthesis of high purity single wall carbon nanotubes has been developed by using nickel formate as a precursor for the formation of nearly mono-dispersed nickel seed-nanoparticles as catalysts in the CVD growth process.