Growing carbon nanotubes using 100 billion alumina-supported iron nanoparticle catalysts acting like seeds on a 1 X 1 cm plot

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088061

"creating ideal high-density nanotube structures is difficult, overcome using machine-learning to model, characterize, simulate, predict nanoparticle catalyst growth during nanotube fabrication... keeps fabrication cool/ connected... future: not all of those 100 billion nanoparticles will grow nanotubes, and we are working to discover which ones act as seeds, and why"

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