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Membranes 2011, 1, 37-47; doi:10.3390/membranes1010037 OPEN ACCESS membranes ISSN 2077-0375 /journal/membranes/ Article Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Composite Membranes 1 1, 2 1 2 Tariq Altalhi , Milena Ginic-Markovic *, Ninghui Han , Stephen Clarke and Dusan Losic 1 School of Physical and Chemical Science, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; E-Mails: alta0013@.au (T.A.); stephen.clarke@.au (S.K.) 2 Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, SA 5095, Australia; E-Mails: hnhzzh@ (N.H); dusan.losic@.au (D.L.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: milena.ginic-markovic@.au; Tel.: +61 8 8201 5541; Fax: +61 8 8201 2905. Received: 26 November 2010 / Accepted: 23 December 2010 / Published: 27 December 2010 Abstract: Carbon nanotubes are attractive approach for designing of new membranes for advanced molecular separation because of their unique transport properties and ability to mimic biological protein channels. In this work the synthetic approach for fabrication of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) composite membranes is presented. The method is based on growth of multi walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) using chemical vapour deposition (CVD) on the template of nanoporous alumina (PA) membranes. The influence of experimental conditions including carbon precursor, temperature, depositi