Characterization of a sample of single-walled carbon nanotube array by nitrogen adsorption isotherm and density functional theory

Langmuir

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 6088-6096

  Zhang, Xianren ^a   Wang, Wenchuan ^a   Chen, Jianfeng ^a   Shen, Zhigang ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; AGGLOMERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ISOLATED NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0043208022     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la026924c     Document Type: Article

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