Chiral-Selective Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Lattice-Mismatched Epitaxial Cobalt Nanoparticles

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 1460
• Main Authors: He, Maoshuai, Jiang, Hua, Liu, Bilu, Fedotov, Pavel V., Chernov, Alexander I., Obraztsova, Elena D., Cavalca, Filippo, Wagner, Jakob B., Hansen, Thomas W., Anoshkin, Ilya V., Obraztsova, Ekaterina A., Belkin, Alexey V., Sairanen, Emma, Nasibulin, Albert G., Lehtonen, Juha, Kauppinen, Esko I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 15.03.2013; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/301/357/73; 639/638/549/884; 639/925/357/354; 639/925/357/995; Catalysis; Catalysts; Chirality; Cobalt; Cobalt - chemistry; Crystal structure; Crystallography, X-Ray; Humanities and Social Sciences; Kinetics; Metal Nanoparticles - chemistry; Metal Nanoparticles - ultrastructure; Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; multidisciplinary; Nanoparticles; Nanotubes; Nanotubes, Carbon - chemistry; Science; Temperature effects

Controlling chirality in growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is important for exploiting their practical applications. For long it has been conceptually conceived that the structural control of SWNTs is potentially achievable by fabricating nanoparticle catalysts with proper structures...