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Carbon nanotubes1 can now be produced in large quantities by either arc methods2,3 or thermal decomposition of hydrocarbons4,5. Here we report that pyrolysis of acetylene over iron/silica substrates is an effective method with which to produce very long, multiwalled carbon nanotubes that reach about 2 mm in length, which is an order of magnitude longer than that described in most previous reports1,2,3,4,5,.
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Pan, Z., Xie, S., Chang, B. et al. Very long carbon nanotubes. Nature 394, 631–632 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/29206
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