AVS 52nd International Symposium
    Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Friday Sessions
       Session NS-FrM

Invited Paper NS-FrM5
Super Growth - Highly Efficient Synthesis of Impurity-Free Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and its Applications

Friday, November 4, 2005, 9:40 am, Room 210

Session: Nanotube Processing and Properties
Presenter: K. Hata, AIST, Japan
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We demonstrate an extremely efficient chemical vapour deposition synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes where the activity and lifetime of the catalysts are enhanced by an addition of water into the ambient of the CVD furnace, a growth mode we call "Super Growth".@footnote 1@ The enhanced catalytic activity of super growth results in massive growth of super-dense and vertically-aligned single-walled nanotubes forests with heights up to 2.5 millimeters. In addition, these SWNT forests were easily separated from the catalysts, producing the most pure SWNT material (over 99.98%) ever made, amazingly through an all-dry process without any purification. Moreover, patterned highly organized intrinsic single-walled nanotube structures were successfully fabricated. Super Growth simultaneously addresses many critical problems such as scalability, purity, and cost, and opens up innumerable opportunities ranging from fundamental research to real applications. @FootnoteText@ @footnote 1@K. Hata, et al.,Science 306. 1362 (2004)