Very long carbon nanotubes

被引:354
作者
Pan, ZW
Xie, SS
Chang, BH
Wang, CY
Lu, L
Liu, W
Zhou, MY
Li, WZ
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
[2] Cent Univ Nationalities, Dept Phys, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China
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D O I
10.1038/29206
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Carbon nanotubes1 can now be produced in large quantities by either arc methods2,3 or thermal decomposition of hydrocarbons4,5. Here we report that pyrolysis of acetylene over iron/silica substrates is an effective method with which to produce very long, multiwalled carbon nanotubes that reach about 2 mm in length, which is an order of magnitude longer than that described in most previous reports1,2,3,4,5,.
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