Growth mechanism of oriented long single walled carbon nanotubes using fast-heating chemical vapor deposition process

The growth mechanism of long and aligned single walled carbon nanotubes using a recently reported fast heating chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method is discussed. The effect of heating speed at the initial stage of the CVD process has been systematically studied, and a kite-mechanism for the nanotube growth is proposed. The understanding of the growth mechanism would enable us to design future experiments to obtain better control of the morphology of the produced nanotubes.