Water-assisted fabrication of aligned microsized carbon tubes made of self-assembled multi-wall carbon nanotubes.
Aligned micro-sized carbon tubes have been successfully synthesized on silicon substrate by pyrolysis of cyclohexane/ferrocene in the presence of water, a spectacular feature of which is that the multi-wall carbon nanotubes formed in situ act as the basic building blocks for the construction of micro-tubes via a "multi-scale" self-assembly process.
Zhao
Zongbin
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State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, Carbon Research Laboratory, Center for Nano Materials and Science, Dalian University of Technology, 158 Zhongshan Road, P.O. Box 49, Dalian 116012, China.
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Jiangying
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Qiu
Jieshan
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Wang
Xuzhen
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Wang
Zhiyu
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