2. Synthesis of carbon nanotubes

Since the discovery of NTCs, researchers have focused their efforts on synthesis methods, which have been the subject of several patents and account for more than half of all scientific articles on nanotubes (more than 1,200 ). However, the development of new NTC synthesis methods is driven by our limited and fragmentary knowledge of the growth mechanism(s) of nanotubes. The need to understand these mechanisms is closely linked to the relationship between the geometric structure (diameter, chirality)...