Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and other shaped carbon nanomaterials (SCNMs) were synthesized by the floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition (CVD) method, using either ferrocene [1] as the catalyst at 2.5 or 5 wt.%, or a synthesized heteroatom-containing ferrocene derivative, in toluene, in the range 750 to 950 °C. The derivatives used were ferrocenoyl imidazolide [3] (a source of N and O) at 2.5 and 5 wt.%, (N-phenylcarbamoyl)ferrocene [4] (a source of N and O) at 1.25 wt.% and S,S-bis(ferrocenylmethyl)dithiocarbonate [5] (a source of S and O) at 2.5 wt.%, which was synthesized from ferrocenylmethanol [2]. These were characterized by melting point, 1H- and 13C-NMR spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry (MS). The effects of variations in the CVD physicochemical reaction parameters, namely temperature, catalyst employed (and the effect of its heteroatoms, where applicable) and catalyst concentration, on the CVD products were investigated. These materials were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive Xray spectroscopy (EDX), Raman spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and some by the Brunauer, Emmett and Teller method (BET). The best temperature range, in terms of high yields of MWCNTs with relatively high thermal stabilities and surface areas, in general, was identified as being 800 to 900 °C, from results obtained with [1]. This temperature range was used for further experiments. Among other results, it was shown that [1] and [3], at 2.5 wt.%, and at 800 and 850 °C respectively, produced the best materials. Catalysts [4] and [5] produced primarily carbon spheres, however, in general, all experiments using N-containing catalysts produced bamboo-shaped MWCNTs. For [3], at 2.5 wt.%, smaller bamboo compartment lengths correlated with decreasing temperature and decreasing crystallinity, suggesting a larger incorporation of nitrogen with lowered temperature. Catalyst [3] at 2.5 wt.% also produced very “clean” MWCNTs and this was attributed to optimal levels of oxygen being able to convert amorphous carbons to gas. Certain MWCNT properties were shown to be dependent on the combined, or synergistic, effects of catalyst concentration and temperature. The best undoped MWCNTs that were synthesized and commercially produced MWCNTs were loaded with Pd nanoparticles using a metal organic CVD (MOCVD) method. Results revealed well dispersed metal nanoparticles of narrow size distribution. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2012.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2007. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, December 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-129).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2008. / Principal faculty advisors: Dennis W. Prather, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering; and Bingqing Wei, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Texas at Dallas, 2008. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-65)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. / Committee Chair: Satish Kumar; Committee Member: Art Ragauskas; Committee Member: Johannes Leisen; Committee Member: John Muzzy; Committee Member: Samuel Graham.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. / Z.L. Wang, Committee Member ; Thomas Starr, Committee Member ; Mostafa Ghiaasiaan, Committee Member ; W. Jack Lackey, Committee Chair; Shreyes Melkote, Committee Member. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-77). Available also in an electronic version.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.