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Poptube approach for ultrafast carbon nanotube growth
Zhen Liu1, Jialai Wang, Vinod Kushvaha
1Department of Polymer and Fiber Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 10, 2011
Abstract:
Microwave irradiation can be used to heat conductive materials and metallocene precursors to initiate ultrafast CNT growth. It takes only 15-30 seconds to grow CNTs at room temperature in air, without the need for any inert gas protection and additional feed stock gases.
