Meet the editors

Hosam El-Din Saleh is a professor of radioactive waste management in the Radioisotope Department, Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt. He has been awarded MSc and PhD degrees in Physical Chemistry from Cairo University. His area of interest is innovative economic and environment-friendly techniques for the management of hazardous and radioactive wastes. He has authored many peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters, and is

the editor of several books from by international publishers.

Prof. El-Sheikh was awarded his PhD from Cairo University in 2000. He is currently the Head of the Nanomaterials Department, Central Metallurgical R&D Institute. His research interests are nanomaterials, wastewater treatment, conversion of CO2 to renewable fuel, and environmental pollution control. He has published 110 papers in international journals and more than 60 presentations at national and international conferences.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Deposition

Introductory Chapter: Carbon Nanotubes *by Hosam M. Saleh and Martin Koller*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Synthesis and Production of Carbon Nanotubes **11**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 57**

**Chapter 5 69**

Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes **87**

**Chapter 6 89**

Synthesis and Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Filled with

Carbon Nanotube from Unconventional Precursor- Optimization of

*by Karthikeyan Srinivasan, Angulakshmi Sathyamoorthi Venkatasamy* 

*by Oleg I. Il'in, Marina V. Il'ina, Nikolay N. Rudyk, Alexandr A. Fedotov* 

Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Detection of Volatile Organic

*by Arti Dinkarrao Rushi, Kunal Prasanta Datta, Prasanta Sudarshan Ghosh,* 

Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Production by PECVD

Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes by Catalytic Chemical Vapor

*by Xiao-Di Wang, K. Vinodgopal and Gui-Ping Dai*

*by Marianna V. Kharlamova and Dominik Eder*

*Ashok Mulchandani and Mahendra D. Shirsat*

Metal Halogenides and Metallocenes

Synthesis Parameters

*and Oleg A. Ageev*

**Section 3**

Pollutant

*and Mageswari Subramanian*
