Syed Safvi completed his M. S. in 1990. Syed studied the catalytic growth of carbon filaments in his M. S. research.

“The Dependence of Catalytic Carbon Filament Growth Kinetics Upon Gas Phase Carbon Activity,” S. A. Safvi, E. C. Bianchini, and C. R. F. Lund, Carbon 29, 1245 (1991). [more info]

Syed A. Safvi, “A Catalytic Study of Carbon Filament Growth,” M. S. Thesis, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Dept. of Chemical Engineering (1990). [more info]