Tip-to-tip growth of aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes under an electric field

Electric field-oriented growth of carbon nanotubes and Y-branches in a needle-pulsed arc discharge unit: mechanism of the production

“…[11À19] The electric field-induced growth of CNTs has been regarded as an effective and controllable method to produce well-aligned SWCNTs [11] and MWCNTs.…”

“…The increased growth length of the CNT was noticed in several works as well. [11,15] Bao et al presented a simulation of MWCNTs' growth mechanism in an electric field-induced method. [12] Recently, some experiments have been conducted to study the synthesis of carbon nanostructures by using pulsed arc discharge method.…”

Directional role of weak magnetic field on the self-fabrication of ordered nickel chains

“…Magnetic metal nanomaterials such as Fe, Co and Ni have attracted much attention due to their excellent properties and potential applications in high-density magnetic recording [1], sensors [2], catalysis [3,4] and so on. Therefore, much effort has been made to synthesize these transition metals, including hydrogen arc plasma [5], borohydride reduction of metal salts [6,7], gamma-ray irradiation [8,9], template synthesis [10][11][12][13] and so forth.…”

Low temperature carbon nanowires growth at the microgap by corona discharge assisted thermal CVD

“…Despites of many advantages of carbon nanowires, they are not widely used at real applications because of difficulty of positioning them at the desired location, and many methods have been attempted to achieve this goal. Nanowires can be deposited in an aligned fashion between electrodes from solution using ac electric fields [1] and electric field aligned growth in thermal CVD is the method attempting for growing nanowires directly on chips [2]. In our experiments, we grow the carbon nanowires at the microgap by corona discharge assisted thermal CVD.…”