DOI: 10.1002/adma.200305763
WoS: 000220322900017
19 Citations
Résumé:

The use of phosphorus as a co-catalyst enabling modification of the kinetic equilibrium between the elementary growth steps of multiwalled carbon nanotubes and induction of a mechanism of sequential catalytic growth is reported. The mechanism produces nanotube-based filaments periodically inserted with catalyst nanoparticles, which resemble nanoscale matches (see Figure).