Production of novel amorphous carbon nanostructures from ferrocene in low-temperature solution

Carbon

Volumn 42, Issue 8-9, 2004, Pages 1447-1453

  Xiong, Yujie ^a   Xie, Yi ^a   Li, Xiaoxu ^a   Li, Zhengquan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PYROLYSIS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPORIZATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

LORENTZIAN ANALYSIS; SOLVOTHERMAL PROCESS; TUBULAR STRUTURES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 2542435250     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2003.12.073     Document Type: Article

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