title: Self-catalytic behavior of carbon nanotubes.
abstract: Self-catalytic behavior of multi-walled carbon nanotubes is proposed and validated experimentally under the conditions in which metal catalysis was previously figured to work only. The self-catalysis could support the nanotube nucleation and radial and axial developing processes. This result should lead to a new and better understanding of the growth mechanism of carbon nanotubes in a metal catalytic process.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, China. zpzhu@sxicc.ac.cn
authors.forename: Zhenping
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authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Yi
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authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Dahong
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authors.lastname: Qiao
authors.forename: Shuli
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authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Tuoping
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authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Li
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authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jianfeng
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authors.lastname: Zheng