Large-scale synthesis and HRTEM analysis of single-walled B- and N-doped carbon nanotube bundles

Carbon

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2017-2027

  Golberg, D ^a   Bando, Y ^a   Bourgeois, L ^a   Kurashima, K ^a   Sato, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; CARBON; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SINGLE-WALLED NANOTUBES (SWNT);

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0033725479     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(00)00058-0     Document Type: Article

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