Synthesis of diamond from carbon nanotubes under high pressure and high temperature

Carbon

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 311-314

  Cao, Limin ^a   Gao, Cunxiao ^b   Sun, Haiping ^a   Zou, Guangtian ^b   Zhang, Ze ^a   Zhang, Xiangyi ^a   He, Meng ^a   Zhang, Ming ^a   Li, Yancun ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Dai, Daoyang ^a   Sun, Liling ^a   Wang, Wenkui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; NANOTUBES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

DIAMONDS;

EID: 0035154697     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(00)00243-8     Document Type: Letter

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