Carbon nanotubes are playing an important role in the field of nanotechnology. Single walled carbon nanotubes and multiwalled carbon nanotubes are interrelated to each other
Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is considered as formation of rolling of a single layer of graphite (called a graphene layer) into a seamless cylinder. A multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) can similarly be considered to be a coaxial assembly of cylinders of SWCNTs. The separation between tubes is about equal to that between the layers in natural graphite. So nanotubes are one-dimensional objects with a well-defined direction along the nanotube axis that is analogous to the in-plane directions of graphite.”
Singlewalled carbon nanotubes, SWCNT, Single walled nanotubes at reinste are produced by HiPCO Method. It is in form of dry powder of Nanotubes bundled in ropes with diameter ~ 0.8 – 1.2 nm and length ~ 100- 1000 nm. SWNTs are an important variety of carbon nanotube because most of their properties change significantly with the (n,m) values, and this dependence is non-monotonic In particular, their band gap can vary from zero to about 2 eV and their electrical conductivity can show metallic or semiconducting behavior.