Fabrication of single-walled carbon nanotubes from multi-walled carbon nanotubes and carbon fibers [5]

Carbon

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2970-2973

  Zhong, Rong ^a   Cong, Hongtao ^a   Liu, Chang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; B. Arc discharge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036408352     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(02)00285-3     Document Type: Letter

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