Taking the Measure of Carbon Nanotube Growth
Channel: MPC- MIT
Date: 2016-12-22

Better production methods for carbon nanotubes will require control of both chemical and mechanical factors in their growth, a recent report by MIT researchers show.

Postdoctoral Associate Mostafa Bedewy, working with Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering A. John Hart, demonstrated that competition between the chemical activation of carbon nanotubes growing on seed particles and the mechanical coupling among growing carbon nanotubes of different sizes, leads to the waviness of individual strands seen in highly magnified views of CNT forests.

See related article, http://mpc-www.mit.edu/mpc/item/375-carbon-nanotubes-under-stress