Scale up of a solar reactor for fullerene and nanotube synthesis

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 22-27

  Guillard, Tony ^a   Flamant, Gilles ^a   Robert, Jean François ^a   Rivoire, Bruno ^a   Giral, Joseph ^a   Laplaze, Daniel ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC ARCS; FULLERENES; HEAT TRANSFER; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CARBON SOOT; FIELD EMISSION DISPLAY; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWNT); SOLAR; SOLAR REACTOR;

SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0041457156     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1434263     Document Type: Article

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