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Fabrication, Densification, and Replica Molding of 3D Carbon Nanotube Microstructures
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Carbon nanotube graphoepitaxy: highly oriented growth by faceted nanosteps
Ariel Ismach1, David Kantorovich, Ernesto Joselevich
1Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|August 18, 2005
Abstract:
Single-wall carbon nanotubes grow along self-assembled nanosteps of annealed miscut C-plane sapphire. Depending on the miscut orientation and annealing conditions, graphoepitaxy leads to the formation of either unprecedentedly straight and parallel nanotubes, with angular deviations as small as +/-0.5 degrees , or to wavy nanotubes loosely conformal to sawtooth-shaped faceted nanosteps.
