Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1418421 | Carbon | 2006 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Catalytic chemical vapor deposition was used to grow multi-walled carbon nanotubes on a Fe:Co:CaCO3 catalyst from acetylene. The influent and effluent gases were analyzed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry at different time intervals during the nanotubes growth process in order to better understand and optimize the overall reaction. A large number of byproducts were identified and it was found that the number and the level for some of the carbon byproducts significantly increased over time. The CaCO3 catalytic support thermally decomposed into CaO and CO2 resulting in a mixture of two catalysts for growing the nanotubes, which were found to have outer diameters belonging to two main groups 8-35Â nm and 40-60Â nm, respectively.
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Authors
T.C. Schmitt, A.S. Biris, D.W. Miller, A.R. Biris, D. Lupu, S. Trigwell, Z.U. Rahman,