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Thermodynamic Imbalance, Surface Energy, and Segregation Reveal the True Origin of Nanotube Synthesis
Article first published online: 6 FEB 2012
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201103576
Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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Mohammad, S. N. (2012), Thermodynamic Imbalance, Surface Energy, and Segregation Reveal the True Origin of Nanotube Synthesis. Adv. Mater., 24: 1262–1275. doi: 10.1002/adma.201103576
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- Issue published online: 24 FEB 2012
- Article first published online: 6 FEB 2012
- Manuscript Received: 17 SEP 2011
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Keywords:
- thermodynamic imbalance;
- surface energy;
- segregation;
- nanotube synthesis;
- shell model
Extensive analyses of thermodynamic imbalance, surface energy, and segregation of nanotubes on nanoparticle surfaces are performed. A model for surface energy i developed. In addition, nanotube growth both by vapor-phase and solid-phase mechanisms is described. Segregation of the nanotube species to the periphery of the nanoparticle, the creation of an amorphous shell at this periphery, a droplet created in this shell, and the mediation of this droplet for supersaturation and nucleation of the nanotube species may be the true causes of nanotube growth.