Recent Progress on the Growth Mechanism of Carbon Nanotubes: A Review

Millimeter-Tall Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Rapidly Grown with and without Water

(2011) Kei Hasegawa et al.   ACS Nano

Nitrogen-Doped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Grown on Substrates: Evidence for Framework Doping and Their Enhanced Properties

(2011) Yu Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Open-Ended, N-Doped Carbon Nanotube-Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures as High-Performance Catalyst Support

(2011) Ruitao Lv et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Dissolved Carbon Controls the Initial Stages of Nanocarbon Growth

(2011) Ali Rinaldi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Few graphene layers/carbon nanotube composites grown at complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor compatible temperature

(2011) V. Jousseaume et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Facile Removal of Amorphous Carbon from Carbon Nanotubes by Sonication

(2011) Ali Rinaldi et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Nanocatalyst structure as a template to define chirality of nascent single-walled carbon nanotubes

(2011) Diego A. Gómez-Gualdrón et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Mechanisms of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Nucleation, Growth, and Healing Determined Using QM/MD Methods

(2010) Alister J. Page et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Direct Low-Temperature Nanographene CVD Synthesis over a Dielectric Insulator

(2010) Mark H. Rümmeli et al.   ACS Nano

Electronic Transport between Graphene Layers Covalently Connected by Carbon Nanotubes

(2010) Frederico D. Novaes et al.   ACS Nano

Tailored Distribution of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes from Arc Plasma Synthesis Using Magnetic Fields

(2010) Olga Volotskova et al.   ACS Nano

Low-Temperature, Highly Efficient Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Functional Materials by an Oxidative Dehydrogenation Reaction

(2010) Arnaud Magrez et al.   ACS Nano

Hierarchical Composites of Single/Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Interlinked Flakes from Direct Carbon Deposition on Layered Double Hydroxides

(2010) Meng-Qiang Zhao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

100 mm Long, Semiconducting Triple-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2010) Qian Wen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Facile and Scalable Fabrication of Well-Aligned and Closely Packed Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films on Various Substrates

(2010) Bin Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Aligned, Ultralong Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Synthesis, Sorting, to Electronic Devices

(2010) Zhongfan Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Improved Density in Aligned Arrays of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Sequential Chemical Vapor Deposition on Quartz

(2010) Suck Won Hong et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Three-Dimensional Carbon Nanotube/Graphene Sandwich and Its Application as Electrode in Supercapacitors

(2010) Zhuangjun Fan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Graphene-How a Laboratory Curiosity Suddenly Became Extremely Interesting

(2010) Hanns-Peter Boehm   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

From Conception to Realization: An Historial Account of Graphene and Some Perspectives for Its Future

(2010) Daniel R. Dreyer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Tuning of nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes as catalyst support for liquid-phase reaction

(2010) Kambiz Chizari et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS A-GENERAL

Doped carbon nanotube array with a gradient of nitrogen concentration

(2010) Eryang Xu et al.   CARBON

Layered double hydroxides as catalysts for the efficient growth of high quality single-walled carbon nanotubes in a fluidized bed reactor

(2010) Meng-Qiang Zhao et al.   CARBON

Synthesis of high quality single-walled carbon nanotubes on natural sepiolite and their use for phenol absorption

(2010) Jing-Qi Nie et al.   CARBON

Pd nanoparticles supported on N-doped nanocarbon for the direct synthesis of H2O2 from H2 and O2

(2010) S. Abate et al.   CATALYSIS TODAY

Spinel-Type Cobalt-Manganese-Based Mixed Oxide as Sacrificial Catalyst for the High-Yield Production of Homogeneous Carbon Nanotubes

(2010) Jean-Philippe Tessonnier et al.   ChemCatChem

Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane over Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

(2010) Benjamin Frank et al.   ChemCatChem

Growing 20 cm Long DWNTs/TWNTs at a Rapid Growth Rate of 80−90 μm/s

(2010) Qian Wen et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Composites of Molecular-Anchored Graphene and Nanotubes with Multitubular Structure: A New Type of Carbon Electrode

(2010) Xi Liu et al.   ChemSusChem

Transesterification of Triglycerides Using Nitrogen-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes

(2010) Alberto Villa et al.   ChemSusChem

Advanced Materials from Natural Materials: Synthesis of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Wollastonites

(2010) Meng-Qiang Zhao et al.   ChemSusChem

Oxidative Purification of Carbon Nanotubes and Its Impact on Catalytic Performance in Oxidative Dehydrogenation Reactions

(2010) Ali Rinaldi et al.   ChemSusChem

Metal-Free Heterogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Chemistry

(2010) Dang Sheng Su  et al.   ChemSusChem

Nanostructured Carbon and Carbon Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications

(2010) Dang Sheng Su  et al.   ChemSusChem

Nanostructured WCx/CNTs as highly efficient support of electrocatalysts with low Pt loading for oxygen reduction reaction

(2010) Changhai Liang et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

An Updated Review of Synthesis Parameters and Growth Mechanisms for Carbon Nanotubes in Fluidized Beds

(2010) Kieran J. MacKenzie et al.   INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH

Structure and properties of a Mo oxide catalyst supported on hollow carbon nanofibers in selective propene oxidation

(2010) T. Ressler et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Active coke: Carbonaceous materials as catalysts for alkane dehydrogenation

(2010) James McGregor et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes: A Review on Growth Mechanism and Mass Production

(2010) Mukul Kumar et al.   JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Interplay of Catalyst Size and Metal−Carbon Interactions on the Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2010) Juan C. Burgos et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Ethanol-Promoted High-Yield Growth of Few-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2010) Yongyi Zhang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Metal-Free Carbon Nanomaterials Become More Active than Metal Catalysts and Last Longer

(2010) Dingshan Yu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Embedded High Density Metal Nanoparticles with Extraordinary Thermal Stability Derived from Guest−Host Mediated Layered Double Hydroxides

(2010) Meng-Qiang Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

QM/MD Simulation of SWNT Nucleation on Transition-Metal Carbide Nanoparticles

(2010) Alister J. Page et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Highly Efficient Metal-Free Growth of Nitrogen-Doped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Plasma-Etched Substrates for Oxygen Reduction

(2010) Dingshan Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Predominant (6,5) Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Growth on a Copper-Promoted Iron Catalyst

(2010) Maoshuai He et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Stability and Reactivity of ϵ−χ−θ Iron Carbide Catalyst Phases in Fischer−Tropsch Synthesis: Controlling μC

(2010) Emiel de Smit et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Importance of Oxygen in the Metal-Free Catalytic Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes from SiOxby a Vapor−Solid−Solid Mechanism

(2010) Bilu Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

SWNT Nucleation from Carbon-Coated SiO2Nanoparticles via a Vapor−Solid−Solid Mechanism

(2010) Alister J. Page et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Direct Fibrogenic Effects of Dispersed Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Human Lung Fibroblasts

(2010) Liying Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH-PART A-CURRENT ISSUES

Early Stages in the Nucleation Process of Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Matthieu Moors et al.   ACS Nano

Growth Velocity and Direct Length-Sorted Growth of Short Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by a Metal-Catalyst-Free Chemical Vapor Deposition Process

(2009) Bilu Liu et al.   ACS Nano

Investigating the Graphitization Mechanism of SiO2 Nanoparticles in Chemical Vapor Deposition

(2009) Alicja Bachmatiuk et al.   ACS Nano

Diffusion- and Reaction-Limited Growth of Carbon Nanotube Forests

(2009) Christoph Tobias Wirth et al.   ACS Nano

In Situ Assembly of Multi-Sheeted Buckybooks from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Qingfeng Liu et al.   ACS Nano

Selective Deposition of Metal Nanoparticles Inside or Outside Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Jean-Philippe Tessonnier et al.   ACS Nano

Nanoengineering NixFe1−x Catalysts for Gas-Phase, Selective Synthesis of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Wei-Hung Chiang et al.   ACS Nano

Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Weiya Zhou et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Energy-Absorbing Hybrid Composites Based on Alternate Carbon-Nanotube and Inorganic Layers

(2009) Qiang Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Defect-Mediated Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes as a Route to Design Single-Site Basic Heterogeneous Catalysts for Biomass Conversion

(2009) Jean-Philippe Tessonnier et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Analysis of the structure and chemical properties of some commercial carbon nanostructures

(2009) Jean-Philippe Tessonnier et al.   CARBON

Vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays grown on a lamellar catalyst by fluidized bed catalytic chemical vapor deposition

(2009) Qiang Zhang et al.   CARBON

Growth of “all-carbon” single-walled carbon nanotubes from diamonds and fullerenes

(2009) Fubo Rao et al.   CARBON

Controlling the yield and structure of carbon nanofibers grown on a nickel/activated carbon catalyst

(2009) Ali Rinaldi et al.   CARBON

DFT and tight binding Monte Carlo calculations related to single-walled carbon nanotube nucleation and growth

(2009) Wuming Zhu et al.   CARBON

Mass production of aligned carbon nanotube arrays by fluidized bed catalytic chemical vapor deposition

(2009) Qiang Zhang et al.   CARBON

Structural and morphological control of aligned nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes

(2009) Hao Liu et al.   CARBON

The doping of carbon nanotubes with nitrogen and their potential applications

(2009) P. Ayala et al.   CARBON

The role of mechanically induced defects in carbon nanotubes to modify the properties of electrodes for PEM fuel cell

(2009) G. Centi et al.   CATALYSIS TODAY

Influence of the microstructure of carbon nanotubes on the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene

(2009) J.J. Delgado et al.   CATALYSIS TODAY

Pd on carbon nanotubes for liquid phase alcohol oxidation

(2009) Alberto Villa et al.   CATALYSIS TODAY

Amino-functionalized carbon nanotubes as solid basic catalysts for the transesterification of triglycerides

(2009) Alberto Villa et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Fluidized bed catalytic chemical vapor deposition synthesis of carbon nanotubes—A review

(2009) Firoozeh Danafar et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

A Comparative Study on the Lithium-Ion Storage Performances of Carbon Nanotubes and Tube-in-Tube Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Yi-Jun Xu et al.   ChemSusChem

The Use of Natural Materials in Nanocarbon Synthesis

(2009) Dang Sheng Su   ChemSusChem

State of the catalyst during carbon nanotube growth

(2009) C.T. Wirth et al.   DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS

The Role of Nanostructure in Improving the Performance of Electrodes for Energy Storage and Conversion

(2009) Gabriele Centi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

An original growth mode of MWCNTs on alumina supported iron catalysts

(2009) Régis Philippe et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Nanotube nucleation versus carbon-catalyst adhesion–Probed by molecular dynamics simulations

(2009) Morgana A. Ribas et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Purification of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Sreejarani K. Pillai et al.   JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

State of Transition Metal Catalysts During Carbon Nanotube Growth

(2009) Stephan Hofmann et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Self-Assembled Graphene/Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Films for Supercapacitors

(2009) Dingshan Yu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Large scale intercalated growth of short aligned carbon nanotubes among vermiculite layers in a fluidized bed reactor

(2009) Meng-Qiang Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF SOLIDS

Carbon Nanotube Growth from Diamond

(2009) Daisuke Takagi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metal-Catalyst-Free Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Bilu Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metal-Catalyst-Free Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Substrates

(2009) Shaoming Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Nanoscale Zirconia as a Nonmetallic Catalyst for Graphitization of Carbon and Growth of Single- and Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Stephen A. Steiner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The effect of spinel type support FeAlO3, ZnAl2O4, CrAl3O6 on physicochemical properties of Cu, Ag, Au, Ru supported catalysts for methanol synthesis

(2009) T. P. Maniecki et al.   KINETICS AND CATALYSIS

Selective Growth of Well-Aligned Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Lei Ding et al.   NANO LETTERS

“Cloning” of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes via Open-End Growth Mechanism

(2009) Yagang Yao et al.   NANO LETTERS

Fabrication of Ultralong and Electrically Uniform Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Clean Substrates

(2009) Xueshen Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Linking catalyst composition to chirality distributions of as-grown single-walled carbon nanotubes by tuning Ni x Fe1−x nanoparticles

(2009) Wei-Hung Chiang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Commercial carbon nanotubes as heterogeneous catalysts in energy related applications

(2009) J. Zhang et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI B-BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Dislocation theory of chirality-controlled nanotube growth

(2009) Feng Ding et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Preferential Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Metallic Conductivity

(2009) A. R. Harutyunyan et al.   SCIENCE

Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotube Arrays with High Electrocatalytic Activity for Oxygen Reduction

(2009) K. Gong et al.   SCIENCE

Diameter-Selective Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with High Quality by Floating Catalyst Method

(2008) Qingfeng Liu et al.   ACS Nano

The Intramolecular Junctions of Carbon Nanotubes

(2008) Dacheng Wei et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Mount-Etna-Lava-Supported Nanocarbons for Oxidative Dehydrogenation Reactions

(2008) Dang Sheng Su et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

CNFs@CNTs: Superior Carbon for Electrochemical Energy Storage

(2008) Jian Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Synthesis and Electrode Performance of Nanostructured V2O5by Using a Carbon Tube-in-Tube as a Nanoreactor and an Efficient Mixed-Conducting Network

(2008) Yong-Sheng Hu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Self-organization of Novel Carbon Composite Structure: Graphene Multi-Layers Combined Perpendicularly with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

(2008) Daiyu Kondo et al.   Applied Physics Express

Purification of carbon nanotubes

(2008) Peng-Xiang Hou et al.   CARBON

Effect of the experimental parameters on the structure of nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes produced by aerosol chemical vapour deposition

(2008) Antal A. Koós et al.   CARBON

Direct synthesis of carbon nanofibers on modified biomass-derived activated carbon

(2008) Xiao-Wei Chen et al.   CARBON

N-doped carbon nanotubes for liquid-phase CC bond hydrogenation

(2008) Julien Amadou et al.   CATALYSIS TODAY

Fe and Pt carbon nanotubes for the electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to oxygenates

(2008) M. Gangeri et al.   CATALYSIS TODAY

Facile synthesis of carbon nanotube/natural bentonite composites as a stable catalyst for styrene synthesis

(2008) Ali Rinaldi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Simple Synthesis of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes from Natural Resources

(2008) Morinobu Endo et al.   ChemSusChem

Oxidative dehydrogenation of 9,10-dihydroanthracene using multi-walled carbon nanotubes

(2008) Dominique Bégin et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL

Mechanisms for Catalytic CVD Growth of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

(2008) Navdeep Bajwa et al.   JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

The Role of Sulphur in the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes by Chemical Vapour Deposition at High Temperatures

(2008) M. S. Motta et al.   JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Structural Evaluation along the Nanotube Length for Super-long Vertically Aligned Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Arrays

(2008) Supriya Chakrabarti et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

In-situ X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of Catalyst−Support Interactions and Growth of Carbon Nanotube Forests

(2008) Cecilia Mattevi et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Horizontally Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube on Quartz from a Large Variety of Metal Catalysts

(2008) Dongning Yuan et al.   NANO LETTERS

In-Situ Sample Rotation as a Tool to Understand Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Long Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

(2008) Mario Hofmann et al.   NANO LETTERS

Pillared Graphene: A New 3-D Network Nanostructure for Enhanced Hydrogen Storage

(2008) Georgios K. Dimitrakakis et al.   NANO LETTERS

Individual Fe−Co Alloy Nanoparticles on Carbon Nanotubes: Structural and Catalytic Properties

(2008) Jian Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Atomic-Scale In-situ Observation of Carbon Nanotube Growth from Solid State Iron Carbide Nanoparticles

(2008) Hideto Yoshida et al.   NANO LETTERS

Reduced Carbon Solubility in Fe Nanoclusters and Implications for the Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2008) A. R. Harutyunyan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Carbon Nanotube Synthesis in Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharge: A Review

(2008) Tomohiro Nozaki et al.   Plasma Processes and Polymers

Surface-Modified Carbon Nanotubes Catalyze Oxidative Dehydrogenation of n-Butane

(2008) J. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Oxidative dehydrogenation of 1-butene to butadiene over carbon nanotube catalysts

(2007) Xi Liu et al.   CARBON

Tuning nitrogen functionalities in catalytically grown nitrogen-containing carbon nanotubes

(2007) S. van Dommele et al.   CARBON

The Importance of Strong Carbon−Metal Adhesion for Catalytic Nucleation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

(2007) Feng Ding et al.   NANO LETTERS