Novel route to aligned nanotubes and nanofibres using laser-patterned catalytic substrates

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 175-183

  Grobert, N ^a   Terrones, M ^a,b   Trasobares, S ^a   Kordatos, K ^a   Terrones, H ^b   Olivares, J ^a   Zhang, J P ^d   Redlich, Ph ^c   Hsu, W K ^a   Reeves, C L ^e   Wallis, D J ^e   Zhu, Y Q ^a   Hare, J P ^a   Pidduck, A J ^e   Kroto, H W ^a   Walton, D R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO DE FÍSICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGÍA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PYROLYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; LASER PATTERNED CATALYTIC SUBSTRATE; NANOFIBER;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0034138430     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003390050030     Document Type: Article

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