METHOD OF FORMING NANOSTRUCTURES BASED ON NANOTUBES Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC B82B3/00 

FIELD: chemistry.

SUBSTANCE: invention can be used to form solar cells, hardware components for nanoelectronics and nano-system equipment, probes in scanning probe microscopy, detecting elements of sensors, conducting channels of transistors, composite material filler, protective and heat-removing film coatings. The method of forming nanostructures based on nanotubes involves preparation of a substrate on which a catalytic layer is deposited, after which the substrate is put into a reactor unit where working pressure is created. The substrate is then heated while feeding buffer gases into the reactor. An electric field is then created between electrodes of the reactor which initiates plasma. Reaction gas is then fed into the reactor and nanotubes are joined. After formation of nanotubes, the reactor is blown with a fast stream of buffer gas. Steps for creating an electric field and feeding reaction gas are repeated several times and nanotubes formed before are grown.

EFFECT: high quality of joining nanotubes; universality of joining nanotubes at the tips as well as on side surfaces of the nanotubes.

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