Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 254, Issue 21, Pages 6710-6714Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2008.04.050
Keywords
single-walled carbon nanotubes; multi-walled carbon nanotubes; morphology; chemical vapor deposition; catalyst; combinatorial method
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(MEXT) [18686062, 19054003]
- Global COE Program for Chemistry Innovation
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The relationships among the nominal thickness of Co catalyst, the structure of the catalyst particles, and the structure of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) growing from the catalyst during chemical vapor deposition were investigated. Various morphologies of CNTs such as individuals, random networks parallel to the surface of the substrate ('grasses'), and vertically aligned forests of single- and multi-walled carbon nanotubes were grown by only varying the nominal thickness of catalyst under the same reaction condition. These different morphologies at the same growth time were due to the different areal density rather than to the length of CNTs. With increasing nominal thickness of catalyst, the catalyst particles changed in diameter while their areal density remained relatively almost constant. The change in diameter possibly affected the number ratio of active catalyst particles to the whole particles, which in turn affected the areal density of CNTs and yielded the various morphologies. Longer growth time increased the CNT length, which caused further change in CNT morphologies from individuals to grasses and grasses to forests. (C) 2008 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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