Due to its higher degree of control and its scalability, catalytic chemical vapour deposition is
now the prevailing synthesis method of carbon nanotubes. Catalytic chemical vapour …

Sensors are key components in an overwhelming wealth of systems for industrial and
consumer applications. Further system miniaturization will demand for continuous down …

We present the temperature dependence of the growth rate of carbon nanofibers by plasma-
enhanced chemical vapor deposition with Ni, Co, and Fe catalysts. We extrapolate a …

The periodic makeup of carbon nanotubes suggests that their formation should obey the
principles established for crystals. Nevertheless, this important connection remained elusive …

Density functional theory is used to show that the adhesion between single-walled carbon
nanotubes (SWNTs) and the catalyst particles from which they grow needs to be strong to …

Graphene forms from a relatively dense, tightly bound C-adatom gas when elemental C is
deposited on or segregates to the Ru (0001) surface. Nonlinearity of the graphene growth …

We report on ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of the early stages of single-walled
carbon nanotube (SWCNT) growth on metal nanoparticles. Our results show that asp 2 …

The article reviews the interaction between crystalline metals and carbon nanotubes in
nanocomposite systems. Starting with an introduction to the chemical interaction between …

Using first-principles calculations, we model the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of
carbon nanotubes (CNT) on nanoparticles of late-transition (Ni, Pd, Pt) and coinage (Cu, Ag …

We demonstrate that nanosize diamond particles in a stable solid phase can act as nuclei
for carbon nanotube (CNT) growth by chemical vapor deposition. This growth process is …