title: Kinetics of water-assisted single-walled carbon nanotube synthesis revealed by a time-evolution analysis.
abstract: Here we investigate the kinetics of water-assisted CVD (henceforth denoted as supergrowth CVD) by a quantitative time-evolution analysis based on a simple growth model. We found that the supergrowth can be well described by a model where the dynamics of the catalyst activity is treated similar to radioactive decay. An in-depth analysis based on this growth model revealed the kinetics of the supergrowth CVD, showing a scale relationship between the carbon source and water, and elucidated the role of water as a catalyst activity enhancer and preserver.
authors.affiliation: Japan Fine Ceramics Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, 305-8565, Japan.
authors.forename: Don N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Futaba
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hata
authors.forename: Takeo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Kohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mizuno
authors.forename: Motoo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yumura
authors.forename: Sumio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iijima