Dynamic Instability of Individual Carbon Nanotube Growth Revealed by
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Vladimir, Pimonov; Huy-Nam, Tran; Léonard, Monniello; Saïd, Tahir; Thierry, Michel; Renaud, Podor; Michaël, Odorico; Christophe, Bichara; Vincent, Jourdain
- Source
- Nano letters. 21(19)
- Subject
- Kinetics
Nanotubes, Carbon
Nanotechnology
Microscopy, Polarization
Catalysis
- Language
- ISSN
- 1530-6992
Understanding the kinetic selectivity of carbon nanotube growth at the scale of individual nanotubes is essential for the development of high chiral selectivity growth methods. Here we demonstrate that homodyne polarization microscopy can be used for high-throughput imaging of long individual carbon nanotubes under real growth conditions (at ambient pressure, on a substrate) and with subsecond time resolution. Our