Carbon Nanotube Production From Ethylene in CO2/N2 Environments

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have high surface areas and excellent mechanical, electrical, and chemical properties, thus they can be useful in applications related to extraction and conversion of energy. They can be readily produced from hydrocarbon feedstocks. In this work, ethylene, the most voluminously produced hydrocarbon, was used as a CNT feedstock. It was pyrolytically decomposed at elevated temperatures (984–1130 K) to generate CNTs, by...