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Growth of Nanotubes: The Combined Tem and Phase-Diagram Approach

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Carbon Filaments and Nanotubes: Common Origins, Differing Applications?

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The main current challenges in the synthesis of nanotubes are on the one hand the optimization of the production of existing structures - in particular ropes of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) [1] - and on the other hand the exploration of novel structures, such as multi-element nanotubes, including carbon nanotubes filled with foreign materials. Controlling their fabrication requires first to be able to determine their structural and chemical characteristics in a quantitative way. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) provides a unique way for studying the morphologies, the structure and the chemistry of nanotubular materials and has therefore highly contributed to the development of the research on this new kind of structures. Understanding the growth mechanisms is expected to help controlling and optimizing the production of nanotubes with definite geometry and chemistry. No coherent scheme on the growth mechanism has indeed clearly emerged yet, in particular for SWNT ropes, in spite of intensive experimental [2-6] and theoretical researches [7]. In situ studies have just started for different reaction chambers. They are very promising for determining characteristics of the temperature gradient and the time evolution of the matter aggregation after the initial vaporization of the different chemical species [8-10], but for the moment one has to rely on studies on the soot after the synthesis. Many useful information about the formation of nanotubes can again be deduced from TEM observations.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Etude des Microstructures, UMR n° 104 ONERA-CNRS, Onera, B.P. 72, 92322 , Châtillon Cedex, France

    A. Loiseau

  2. Section de Recherches de Métallurgie Physique, CEA/Saclay, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    F. Willaime

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  1. Laboratory for Nanostructure Research, Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest, Hungary

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  2. Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal

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  3. Physics and Physical Chemistry Department, General Motors R&D Center, Warren, USA

    G. G. Tibbetts

  4. Physics Department, Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

    Ph. Lambin

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Loiseau, A., Willaime, F. (2001). Growth of Nanotubes: The Combined Tem and Phase-Diagram Approach. In: Biró, L.P., Bernardo, C.A., Tibbetts, G.G., Lambin, P. (eds) Carbon Filaments and Nanotubes: Common Origins, Differing Applications?. NATO Science Series, vol 372. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0777-1_9

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