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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2011, Article ID 959818, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2011/959818 Research Article Experimental Characterisation of Catalyst-Free Carbon Nanomaterials from Mixed Vegetable and Animal Base Oils through Modified Traditional Process P. S. Venkatanarayanan,1 R. Velmurugan,2 and A. Joseph Stanley1 1 Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai 600044, India 2 Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India Correspondence should be addressed to P. S. Venkatanarayanan, psvenky ravi@ Received 26 May 2010; Accepted 10 March 2011 Academic Editor: Kin Tak Lau Copyright © 2011 P. S. Venkatanarayanan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A new process for the preparation of catalyst-free pure carbon nanomatereials is described here. These nanomaterials are then experimentally investigated. The process is simple and traditional so that the operator can have full control over the flame geometry and oil consumption in a span of time. A slight modification is carried out in the traditional process with an option of external heating (forced convection). Two types of samples are prepared (S1 S2) from two different processes, Modified Traditional Process without external heating (MTP1) and with external heating (MTP2). Deep investigation on yield, morphology and structure of prepared samples are carried out by sophisticated analytical instruments. It is noted that the S1 sample contains pure carbon nano crystals along with well grown thin nano tubular structures whereas S2 sample contains pure c