Abstract Submitted to the    NANOTUBE'04 Conference:

Shape and dimensionality are two important parameters that affect the properties of materiales at nanometer scale. Carbon can be grown into different forms of nanostructures. Periodicaly aligned carbon nanotubes have many potentialapplications in electronics, optics.etc.The development of a hightly efficient one-step technique long and aligned carbon nanotubes with or without Fe filling. The aligned CNTs were synthesized by microwave (MW) irradiation heating from a ferrocene FeC10H10. In this research, atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron micriscopy(SEM) and Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is used for study the growth of aligned carbon nanotubes by microwave heating. As a contribution of this method, the aligned multi-layer carbon nanotubes were obtained. CNTs have a metal particle at the tip of each tube. This carbon nanostructure, promises to become important in fuel cells, and in nanoscale engineering of other systems in which electrical, mechanical, and chemical interactions are integrated to produce macroscale effects.