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Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Growth with Non-Iron-Group "Catalysts" by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Show Author's Information Yoshikazu Homma1( ),  Huaping Liu1,†,  Daisuke Takagi2,  Yoshihiro Kobayashi2,‡
Department of PhysicsTokyo University of Science, ShinjukuTokyo162-8601Japan
NTT Basic Research LaboratoriesNippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, AtsugiKanagawa243-0198Japan

† Current address: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Nanotechnology Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8561, Japan

‡ Current address: Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

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growth mechanism, chemical vapor deposition, catalyst, Carbon nanotube, seed, vapor-liquid-solid mechanism
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Homma Y, Liu H, Takagi D, et al. Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Growth with Non-Iron-Group "Catalysts" by Chemical Vapor Deposition. Nano Research, 2009, 2(10): 793-799. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-009-9082-z
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Various materials have been found to "catalyze" carbon nanotube growth in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) when they become nano-sized particles. These involve not only metals, such as Pd, Pt, Au, Ag, and Cu, but also semiconductors, such as Si, Ge, and SiC. Alumina and diamond nanoparticles also produce carbon nanotubes. These "catalysts", which are better called "seeds", can be categorized into two types: one type forms a eutectic liquid or highly-mobile alloy with carbon, and carbon atoms precipitate from the eutectic alloy; the other type remains as a solid phase and form a carbon surface layer during CVD growth. In this paper, we review recent studies of SWCNT growth with these non-iron-group materials and highlight the mechanisms involved.


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Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Growth with Non-Iron-Group "Catalysts" by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Show Author's information Yoshikazu Homma1( ), Huaping Liu1,†, Daisuke Takagi2, Yoshihiro Kobayashi2,‡
Department of PhysicsTokyo University of Science, ShinjukuTokyo162-8601Japan
NTT Basic Research LaboratoriesNippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, AtsugiKanagawa243-0198Japan

† Current address: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Nanotechnology Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8561, Japan

‡ Current address: Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Abstract

Various materials have been found to "catalyze" carbon nanotube growth in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) when they become nano-sized particles. These involve not only metals, such as Pd, Pt, Au, Ag, and Cu, but also semiconductors, such as Si, Ge, and SiC. Alumina and diamond nanoparticles also produce carbon nanotubes. These "catalysts", which are better called "seeds", can be categorized into two types: one type forms a eutectic liquid or highly-mobile alloy with carbon, and carbon atoms precipitate from the eutectic alloy; the other type remains as a solid phase and form a carbon surface layer during CVD growth. In this paper, we review recent studies of SWCNT growth with these non-iron-group materials and highlight the mechanisms involved.

Keywords: growth mechanism, chemical vapor deposition, catalyst, Carbon nanotube, seed, vapor-liquid-solid mechanism

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Received: 02 May 2009
Revised: 18 August 2009
Accepted: 19 August 2009
Published: 22 October 2009
Issue date: October 2009

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The authors would like to thank Hideto Yoshika, Osaka University, for supporting TEM observations. They acknowledge the support for their research in this field from CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (No. 19054015) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan.

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