NOVELTY - Method comprises fabricating an item via a carbon nanotube, a carbon nano fiber, or functionalized nano carbon, where the item comprises: e.g. components adapted for use as armor or a covering that at least partially resists penetration by a projectile, radiation, chemical agents, or biological agents; thin film prepared by the solvent evaporation of the foregoing adhesive surfaces; apparel, footwear, or fabrics adapted for use as a tarp, weather-resistant covering, or sail; and substrates adapted for acoustic, infrared, UV, or other electromagnetic radiation detection.    USE - The method is useful for fabricating an item via a carbon nanotube, a carbon nano fiber, and functionalized nano carbon, where the item includes e.g. components adapted for use as armor or a covering that at least partially resists penetration by a projectile, radiation, chemical agents, or biological agents; thin film prepared by the solvent evaporation of the foregoing adhesive surfaces; and apparel, footwear, or fabrics adapted for use as a tarp, weather-resistant covering, or sail (claimed).    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Method comprises fabricating an item via a carbon nanotube, a carbon nano fiber, or functionalized nano carbon, where the item comprises: components adapted for use as armor or a covering that at least partially resists penetration by a projectile, radiation, chemical agents, or biological agents; thin film prepared by the solvent evaporation of the foregoing adhesive surfaces; apparel, footwear, or fabrics adapted for use as a tarp, weather-resistant covering, or sail; substrates adapted for acoustic, infrared, UV, or other electromagnetic radiation detection; substrates adapted to form tires, railroad bogies, friction control, or vibration control devices; load-bearing lines adapted for use in parachutes, draglines, cargo containers, netting, or connecting lines; moorings adapted for land-based, aquatic, aerial, or outer space applications; structures adapted for load-bearing or retention applications in construction, including buildings, scaffolds, marine vessel hulls, components, or fittings; construction materials adapted for use in structures; metallic alloys adapted for use in structures, where the metallic alloys comprise nano carbon structures and at least one metal; ceramic composites adapted for use in structures, where ceramic composites comprise nano carbon structures and at least one ceramic material; a structure comprising a heat resistant composite adapted to resist thermal decomposition to at least 1500 degrees C; superconductor composites adapted for use in structures, where the superconductor composites prepared at temperature of higher than 1500 degrees C, where the superconductor composites comprise nano carbon structures and at least one superconducting material; high temperature composites adapted for use in structures; aircraft or aerospace fuselages or structures, or land based vehicle components, including body parts, engine components, or brake linings; rotation parts adapted for use in at least one of vehicles, transportation devices, rotating equipment, or rotating tools; bearings; composites adapted for use in paints adapted to resist scratches and wear caused by an impact or collision; colorants adapted for use in ceramic coloration process, processing at high heat condition; composites adapted for use in brick; composites adapted for use in biomechanical devices; surgical implants; tissue-engineering structures including bone, tendon, muscle, nerve, skin implants or surrogates; wound-healing structures, or molecular capture devices adapted for timed drug delivery; nano-cantilevers adapted for biosensing, cell growth, or orthopedic, vascular, or neural prostheses; filters, barriers, or wipes; sheets, substrates, nanowires, ultrathin films, or photon detectors adapted for conducting electricity or acting as batteries, membrane fuel cells, supercapacitors, superconductors, electromagnetic or electro-optical actuators, or microelectromechanical devices; sheets or structures with variable optical properties; sheets adapted for use as heat conductors, heat sinks, building and reinforcing material, automotive, marine, or aviation or aerospace panels; tubular or I-beam cross sectional items adapted for use as conduits or structural members; or an electron source adapted for use in electron microscopy, field emission lighting, X-ray source, space propulsion, traveling wave tube amplifiers, air remediation, water remediation, or cold field emission; and where the carbon nanotube produced via a tube control agent (TCA) and a metallic catalyst, at least some carbon used to form the carbon nanotube obtained from starch, a bean bearing plant, cloth, wood, a plant, cellulose or a cellulosic product, where the carbon converted into powder by at least one of mechanical milling, biochemical reaction, and chemical reaction.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a schematic representation of a reactor system.    Reactor system (1000)    Outgases inlet (1100)    Raw material holder (1200)    Gas stove (1300)    Valve (1400)    Vacuum pump. (1500)