Lithography-Free Carbon Nanotubes Pave the Way for New Biomimetic Materials

A team of researchers from China, Australia and Poland has developed a lithography-free method to synthesize vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes (VA-MWCNTs). These VA-MWCNTs - synthesized by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) on a nickel catalyst - have tunable pitch and size.