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Growth Techniques of Carbon Nanotubes

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Random carbon nanotubes have been synthesized from many methods. Based on the understanding of the growth mechanism from these methods, aligned carbon nanotubes have been in situ grown. Randomly grown carbon nanotubes can also be aligned using ex situ methods. In this chapter we introduce various methods to grow carbon nanotubes. The grown nanotubes are aligned or random during growth.

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Ren, Z., Lan, Y., Wang, Y. (2012). Growth Techniques of Carbon Nanotubes. In: Aligned Carbon Nanotubes. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30490-3_3

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