Catalytically grown carbon nanotubes of small diameter have a high Young's modulus

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2074-2077

  Lukić, Branimir ^a   Seo, Jin Won ^a   Bacsa, Revathi R ^b   Delpeux, Sandrine ^c   Béguin, François ^c   Bister, Geoffroy ^d   Fonseca, Antonio ^d   Nagy, Janos B ^d   Kis, András ^a   Jeney, Sylvia ^a   Kulik, Andrzej J ^a   Forró, Lás ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT CARNOT CIRIMAT   (France)

^c CNRS Universite   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELASTIC MODULI; HYDROCARBONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CATALYST MATERIAL; HYDROCARBON SOURCE ROCK; LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 27544444670     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl051034d     Document Type: Article

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