Characterization of carbon nanohorn encapsulated Fe particles

Carbon

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 3068-3072

  Li, Xuanke ^a   Lei, Zhongxing ^a   Ren, Rongcui ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Zuo, Xiaohua ^a   Dong, Zhijun ^a   Wang, Houzhi ^a   Wang, Jianbo ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; B. Catalyst; C. Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; AUTOCLAVES; CATALYSTS; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRON; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOHORNS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0242367284     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(03)00395-6     Document Type: Letter

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