Room-temperature growth and applications of carbon nanofibers: A review

Masaki Tanemura; Tatsuhiko Okita; Junya Tanaka; Masashi Kitazawa; Kyosuke Itoh; Lei Miao; Sakae Tanemura; Shu Ping Lau; Hui Ying Yang; Lei Huang

doi:10.1109/TNANO.2006.880428

Room-temperature growth and applications of carbon nanofibers: A review

Masaki Tanemura, Tatsuhiko Okita, Junya Tanaka, Masashi Kitazawa, Kyosuke Itoh, Lei Miao, Sakae Tanemura, Shu Ping Lau, Hui Ying Yang, Lei Huang

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Abstract

Ar+ion bombardment of carbon surfaces (both bulk carbon and carbon-coated substrates) induced the growth of conical protrusions, and either aligned or nonaligned carbon nanofibers (CNFs) grew on the tips without any catalyst even at room temperature. CNFs thus grown were 20 - 50 nm in diameter and 0.2 - 10 μm in length. Very interestingly, no CNF grew without cone bases, and more than one CNF never grew on the respective cone tips. The solely standing and densely distributed CNFs were successfully applied to CNF-based scanning probe microscope (SPM) tips and field electron emission (FEE) sources, respectively. Since the myriad applications are possible, sputter-induced CNFs are believed to be quite promising as one-dimensional nanomaterials.

Original language	English
Article number	1695959
Pages (from-to)	587-593
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
Volume	5
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNANO.2006.880428
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Carbon nanofibers
Field electron emission
Room-temperature growth
Scanning probe microscope (SPM)
Sputtering

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Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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