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This is the peer-reviewed author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Chemical Physics Letters. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive

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We use a highly localised resistive heating technique to grow vertically aligned multiwalled nanotube films and aligned single-walled nanotubes on substrates with an average temperature of less than 100 o C. The temperature at the catalyst can easily be as high as 1000 o C but an extremely high temperature gradient ensures that the surrounding chip is held at much lower temperatures, even as close as 1µm away from the local heater. We demonstrate the influence of temperature on the height of multi-walled nanotube films, illustrate the feasibility of sequential growth of single-walled nanotubes by switching between local heaters and also show that nanotubes can be grown over temperature sensitive materials such as resist polymer.PACS: 61.46.Fg Nanotubes.

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