Printing gel-like catalysts for the directed growth of multiwall carbon nanotubes

Langmuir

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 6877-6883

  Kind, Hannes ^a,c   Bonard, Jean Marc ^c   Forró, László ^c   Kern, Klaus ^b,c   Hernadi, Klara ^d   Nilsson, Lars Ola ^e   Schlapbach, Louis ^e  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; AGING OF MATERIALS; CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DRYING; GELS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); SUBSTRATES;

HYDROPHILIZED ELASTOMERIC STAMP; MICROCONTACT PRINTING; SCANNING ANODE FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPY;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0034248128     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la0001880     Document Type: Article

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