A carbon nanotube is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometre range. They are one of the allotropes of carbon. Two broad classes of carbon nanotubes are recognized:
Transmission electron microscope image of carbon nanotube junction
A scanning electron microscopy image of carbon nanotube bundles
Computer simulated microstructures with agglomeration regions
Carbon nanofibers, vapor grown carbon fibers, or vapor grown carbon nanofibers are cylindrical nanostructures with graphene layers arranged as stacked cones, cups or plates. Carbon nanofibers with gra
Regular carbon nanofibers.
Stacked-cup carbon nanofiber: electron micrograph (left) and model (right).