Kite growth is a process that utilizes laminar gas flow in chemical vapor deposition to grow long, well-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for electronic application. This uses metal nanoparticles (NPs) as catalytic seeds CNT growth. However, these NPs remain impurities the grown CNT. In this study, nanodiamonds (NDs) with negligible activity were utilized nonmetallic instead of catalysts because ...

We consider the nanoscale electronic phase separation in a wide class of different materials, mostly strongly correlated electron systems. The turns out to be quite ubiquitous manifesting itself situations, where itineracy charge carriers competes with their tendency toward localization. latter is often related some specific type magnetic ordering, e.g. antiferromagnetic manganites and low-spin...