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Ian Kinloch

Alan Windle

Milo Sebastian Peter Shaffer

Charanjeet Singh

Krzysztof K K Koziol

Yali Li

Stephen Lee Cash

Milo S P Shaffer

Alan H Windle

A method for producing aligned carbon nanotubes and/or nanofibres comprises providing finely divided substrate particle having substantially smooth faces with radii of curvature of more than 1 &#x3bc;m and of length and breadth between 1 &#x3bc;m and 5 mm and having catalyst material on their surface and a carbon-containing gas at a temperature and pressure at which the carbon-containing gas will react to form carbon when in the presence of the supported catalyst, and forming aligned nanotubes and/or nanofibres by the carbon-forming reaction.

Method for producing carbon nanotubes and/or nanofibres

A process for production of an agglomerate comprises the steps of:

Production of agglomerates from gas phase

A method for producing nanoscaled carbon materials comprising providing, dispersed in a carrier gas, finely divided substrate particles on which to nucleate a catalyst, providing in said carrier gas a catalyst precursor material, decomposing the catalyst precursor material to form a catalytic metal in the presence of the substrate particles such that the catalyst metal is deposited on said substrate particles to form supported-catalyst particles dispersed in said carrier gas, forming a mixture of said dispersed supported-catalyst particles and a gas comprising a carbon containing gas at a temperature at which said carbon containing gas will react to form carbon when in the presence of said supported-catalyst particles, forming nanoscaled carbon materials by said carbon forming reaction and recovering the nanoscaled carbon materials.

Synthesis of nanoscaled carbon materials

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