Carbon Filaments and Nanotubes: Common Origins, Differing Applications?

I: Introduction to carbon fibers and carbon nanotubes.- Vapor-grown carbon fiber research and applications: achievements and barriers.- Electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and applications.- From vapor-grown carbon fibers (VGCFs) to carbon nanotubes.- II: Production of vapor grown carbon fibers and nanotubes.- Nucleation and growth of carbon filaments and vapor-grown carbon fibers.- Carbon nanotubes formation in the arc discharge process.- Catalytic production, purification, characterization and application of single-and multiwall carbon nanotubes.- Optimizing growth conditions for carbon filaments and vapor-grown carbon fibers.- Gasification and surface modification of vapor-grown carbon fibers.- Growth of nanotubes: the combined TEM and phase-diagram approach.- First-principles theoretical modeling of nanotube growth.- Controlled production of tubular carbon and BCN architecture.- Large-scale production of VGCF.- III: Characterization and applications.- Diffraction by molecular helices - The range of morphologies of sp2carbon and the basic theory of diffraction by an atomic helix.- Diffraction by molecular helices -Transmission electron microscopy and diffraction by nanotubes and other helical nanostructures.- STM investigation of carbon nanotubes.- Interpretation of the STM images of carbon nanotubes.- Mechanical properties of vapor grown carbon fibres and VGCF-thermoplastic composites.- Atomic force microscopy investigation of carbon nanotubes.- Structural and electronic properties of carbon nanotube junctions.- Applications of submicron diameter carbon filaments.- The role of rheology in the processing of vapor grown carbon fiber/thermoplastic composites.- Tensile, electrical and thermal properties of vapor grown carbon fibers composites.- Properties and applications of carbon nanotubes - Materials Science Aspects.- Novel applications of VGCF including hydrogen storage.- Roundtable discussions.- Common and disparate elements in filament and nanotube growth.- Properties of imperfect carbon structures.- Likely applications: Near and long term.