Would super growth CVD production have applications in all nanotube fields

[clearwater304]

My group is doing a research project for our technical writing class :/ We are studying carbon nanotube production, and are going to say super growth CVD would be the best production method for this company. Would super growth CVD produce usable nanotubes for electrical circuits, batteries, and structural applications.

 

[Dr Lots-o'watts]

From wikipedia:

"The time required to make single-walled nanotube (SWNT) forests of the height of 2.5 mm by super growth CVD was 10 minutes in 2004. Those SWNT forests can be easily separated from the catalyst, yielding clean SWNT material (purity >99.98%) without further purification. For comparison, the as-grown HiPco CNTs contain about 5-35%[66] of metal impurities; it is therefore purified through dispersion and centrifugation that damages the nanotubes. The super-growth process avoids this problem. Patterned highly organized single-walled nanotube structures were successfully fabricated using the super-growth technique."

That may be the state of the art. If the process is sufficiently reliable and economical for someone who has a use for a 2.5 mm single-walled nanotube forest, then yes.