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(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] To provide carbon nanotubes directly synthesized and grown on a substrate surface and arranged at high density and high precision. SOLUTION: A molecule 4 having an inner cavity, the periphery of which is covered with a protein 2, the molecule having an inorganic material atom 1 held in the inner cavity is developed and arranged on a substrate 6, and then the protein 4 Is a carbon nanotube 13 synthesized by using the inorganic material atom 1 remaining on the substrate as a seed as a result of the removal. Protein molecule 4 is a virus, ferritin family (ferritin and apoferritin), Dps A protein or MrgA protein, and the inorganic material atom 1 is any one of an iron compound such as iron and iron oxide, a nickel compound such as nickel and nickel oxide, and a cobalt compound such as cobalt and cobalt oxide. May be a CVD method. |