Amorphous carbon nanotubes produced by a temperature controlled DC arc discharge

Carbon

Volumn 42, Issue 8-9, 2004, Pages 1852-1855

  Liu, Yongning ^a   Xiaolong, Song ^a   Tingkai, Zhao ^a   Jiewu, Zhu ^a   Hirscher, Michael ^b   Philipp, Fritz ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; B. Arc discharge; C. X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC FURNACES; LASER ABLATION; MORPHOLOGY; SOOT; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

AMORPHOUS STRUCTURE; ARC DISCHARGES; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWNT); SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 2542475329     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2004.01.069     Document Type: Article

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