Controllable growth of double wall carbon nanotubes in a floating catalytic system

Carbon

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 337-342

  Zhou, Zhenping ^a   Ci, Lijie ^a   Chen, Xihua ^b   Tang, Dongsheng ^a   Yan, Xiaoqin ^a   Liu, Dongfang ^a   Liang, Yingxin ^a   Yuan, Huajun ^a   Zhou, Weiya ^a   Wang, Gang ^a   Xie, Sishen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotube; B. Chemical vapor deposition

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; ARGON; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PYROLYSIS; SULFUR; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FLOATING CATALYTIC SYSTEMS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0037212809     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(02)00295-6     Document Type: Article

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