99.9% purity multi-walled carbon nanotubes by vacuum high-temperature annealing

Carbon

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2585-2590

  Huang, Wei ^a   Wang, Yao ^a   Luo, Guohua ^a   Wei, Fei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; B. Heat treatment, Chemical treatment

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM;

CARBON NANOCAPSULES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0141749205     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(03)00330-0     Document Type: Article

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