Carbon Nanotube Synthesis
Arc-discharge graphite rods at low pressure
  • Fullerenes deposited in soot
  • SWNT if anode contains catalyst like Fe, Co, Ni-Co
  • MWNT under hydrogen gas (0.34 nm layer spacing)
Yoshinori Ando, Xinluo Zhao, Toshiki Sugai, and Mukul Kumar, “Growing Carbon Nanotubes,”
Materials Today, Oct 2004, pages 22-49.
L. C. Qin, Nature(2000) 408, 50