Turning refuse plastic into multi-walled carbon nanotube forest.

A novel and effective method was devised for synthesizing a vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forest on a substrate using waste plastic obtained from commercially available water bottles. The advantages of the proposed method are the speed of processing and the use of waste as a raw material. A mechanism for the CNT growth was also proposed.

Catalytic Hydrolysis of Phosphate Diesters by Lanthanide(III) Cryptate (2.2.1) Complexes.

Lanthanide(III) Cryptate (2.2.1) chlorides (Ln(2.