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A model for the growth of bamboo and skeletal nanotubes: catalytic capillarity
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posted on 2002-04-01, 00:00 authored by L T Chadderton, Ying (Ian) ChenYing (Ian) ChenAnnealing of ball-milled powders of graphite and boron nitride leads to the formation of nanotubes. Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation processes are active. Tip nucleation by metal impurities, and surface diffusion gives rise by catalytic capillary growth to 'bamboo' and larger 'skeletal' nanotubes with a pronounced endohedral crystallographic architecture comprising inverted and faceted cuneiform voids. Dominant surface diffusion drives the growth of the nanotube. The internal structure is due to a fluid-like capillarity of the precipitate - thermodynamics and the capillarity of solids - which shapes and reshapes during nanotube extrusion.
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Journal of crystal growthVolume
240Issue
1-2Pagination
164 - 169Publisher
Elsevier Science BVLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0022-0248Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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