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Abstract
As a new frontier in low-dimensional material and nanotechnology, carbon nanotubes research has significant potential for
scientific breakthrough and technological innovation. The corporations of scientists in materials and physics as well as chemistry,
for example, are already beginning to bear fruit. However, the fabrication in large-scale and high quality of carbon nanotubes is
still an essential problem, which entirely correlates with basic properties and potential applications of nanotubes. In this paper,
we outline the recent progress about fabrication of aligned and very long carbon nanotubes, which has been done in our research
group. Carbon nanotube arrays were prepared by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of hydrocarbon gas on various substrates.
The effect of substrates on the growth, morphology and structure of carbon nanotubes were investigated. Aligned carbon
nanotubes with high density and purity were achieved by CVD on bulk silica substrate. On the film-like substrates, very long
carbon nanotubes of length 2 mm were produced, which is an order of magnitude longer (1 mm vs. 100 mm) than that described
in most previous reports. Published by Elsevier Science S.A.
Fig. 5. SEM images of very long CNTs. (A) Very long CNTs arrays
formed on both sides of the film-like substrate (indicated by an
arrow). (B) A nanotube boundle cleaved from a nanotube array along
the growth direction of the tubes. The total length of the bundle is
about 2 mm.
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