Temperature and catalyst effects on the production of amorphous carbon nanotubes by a modified arc discharge

Carbon

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2907-2912

  Zhao, Tingkai ^a   Liu, Yongning ^a   Zhu, Jiewu ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arc discharge; Carbon nanotubes; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CATALYSTS; COBALT ALLOYS; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROGEN; POWDERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ALLOY POWDERS; AMORPHOUS CARBON NANOTUBES; CONTROL TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN GAS TEMPERATURE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 24344442384     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2005.06.005     Document Type: Article

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