title: State of the art of single-walled carbon nanotube synthesis on surfaces.
abstract: Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) directly synthesized on surfaces are promising building blocks for nanoelectronics. The structures and the arrangement of the SWNTs on surfaces determine the quality and density of the fabricated nanoelectronics, implying the importance of structure controlled growth of SWNTs on surfaces. This review summarizes the recent research status in controlling the orientation, length, density, diameter, metallicity, and chirality of SWNTs directly synthesized on surfaces by chemical vapor deposition, together with a session presenting the characterization method of the chirality of SWNTs. Finally, the remaining major challenges are discussed and future research directions are proposed.
authors.affiliation: Center for Nanochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Yabin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yingying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Lixing
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Shuchen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Huanhuan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Qiuchen
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Qingwen
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: chemical vapor deposition; chirality; parallel aligned array on surfaces; single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT); structure control