Benzene-thermal route to carbon nanotubes at a moderate temperature [1]

Carbon

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2961-2963

  Shao, Mingwang ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Wu, Ji ^a   Xie, Bo ^a   Zhang, Shuyuan ^a   Qian, Yitai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; B. Catalyst; Pyrolysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036405004     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(02)00207-5     Document Type: Letter

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