The Nucleation and Growth of Carbon Nanotubes in a Mechano-Thermal Process

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2004

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Chen, Ying
Conway, Martin
Fitz Gerald, John
Williams, James
Chadderton, Lewis

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Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

Separate nucleation and growth processes of carbon nanotubes were found in a mechano-thermal method in which carbon nanotubes are produced by first mechanical milling of graphite powder at room temperature and subsequent thermal annealing up to 1400 °C.

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Keywords: Annealing; Crystallization; Graphite; Growth (materials); Molecular structure; Nucleation; Precipitation (chemical); Transmission electron microscopy; Gas flow; Molecular diameter; Nucleation structures; Surface area; Carbon nanotubes A. Carbon nanotubes; B. Grinding, Annealing

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