Effect of nickel, iron and cobalt on growth of aligned carbon nanotubes

By Z. Huang, D. Wang, J. Wen, M. Sennett, H. Gibson, Zhifeng Ren. 2002

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Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering

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In Materials Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• Determination of mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and vertically aligned carbon nanotube forests using nanoindentation (2003, methodology): “Recently, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) has been used to grow forest-like vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) onto substrates coated with a suitable metal catalyst (Huang et al., 1998, 2002; Chhowalla et al., 2001; Han et al., 2002).”
• Carbon nanotubes: synthesis, properties and engineering applications (2019, background): “Nickel seems to be the most suitable metal catalyst for the growth of aligned MWNT [110].”
• Prediction of carbon nanotube growth success by the analysis of carbon–catalyst binary phase diagrams (2006, background): “CNTs can be grown by a variety of means, the most common of which are: arc discharge [13], laser ablation [14], and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) [15–17].”
• Current understanding of the growth of carbon nanotubes in catalytic chemical vapour deposition (2013, background): “[345] found that Ni yielded the highest growth rate, largest”