Effects Of Hydrogen On Growing Carbon Nanotubes

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Effects of Hydrogen on Growing Carbon Nanotubes

 

 

 

ScienceDaily (Oct. 9, 2010) — Carbon nanotubes -- long, hollow cylinders of carbon billionths of a meter in diameter -- have many potential uses in nanotechnology, optics, electronics, and many other fields. The exact properties of nanotubes depend on their structure, and scientists as yet have little control over that structure, which is determined during the initial formation -- or growth -- of the nanotubes. In fact, says chemical engineer and materials scientist Eray Aydil of the University of Minnesota, "we do not know precisely how the nanotubes grow."

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101005104440.htm