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Plant materials that are rich in plant fibers have been the material of choice of many carbon nanotechnologists; for example, Paul (2012) [13] has worked on a number of plant species from Northeast India and others have tried sugar cane [14] (Romanovicz, 2013), cotton fiber [15] (Sharon et al., 2011), rice straw [16] (Viswanathan et al., 2014), corncob [17] (Shukla et al., 2012), bamboo [18] (Zhu et al., 2012), etc., as raw materials with promising results. The aquatic algae Euglena [19] has also been tried. The nature of precursor to a large extent determines the type of CNMs obtained. The advantage of using plant fibers is that its inherent anatomy helps in producing the unique morphology of CNF with channel-like structures which otherwise will be difficult to fabricate by other methods.