平らな基板の上に,長さミリメートル,水平に並べられた単一壁の炭素ナノチューブの成長

Shaoming Huang1, Xinyu Cai, Jie Liu

  • 1Chemistry Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.

まとめ

研究者は,CO-CVDを使用して,長い,並べられた単一壁の炭素ナノチューブ (SWNT) を作成しました. この方法は,ナノデバイスのためのSWNT配列の制御された生産を可能にします.

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