Catalytic effect of the spinel ferrite nanocrystals on the growth of carbon nanotubes

R. Hosseini Akbarnejad, V. Daadmehr, F. Shahbaz Tehrani +2

We prepared three ferrite nanocatalysts: (i) copper ferrite (CuFe2O4), (ii) ferrite where cobalt was substituted by nickel (NixCo1-xFe2O4, with x= 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6), and (iii) ferr…