Supporting Information Surface Tension Mediated Conversion of Light to Work
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Carbon Nanotube Growth: Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VANTs) were grown by chemical vapor deposition (1) on Silicon substrates with ~1.5 nm Fe on 10 nm Al2O3 as a catalyst system. The substrates were loaded into a 1” Linderberg/Blue M Mini-Mite Tube Furnace, heated to 450 °C under 200 standard cubic centimeters per minute (sccm) nitrogen, soaked in a reducing atmosphere (hydrogen 40 sccm: nitrogen 200 sccm) for 5 minutes, and then heated to 750 °C. Ethylene (40 sccm) was introduced for 30 minutes along with 2 sccm of water saturated nitrogen. VANTs were characterized with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) conducted with a FEI Sirion XL30 SEM. The VANTs were hundreds of microns tall with average diameters of ~10 nm.
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