Etching effects of ethanol on multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1218-1224

  Yu, Guojun ^a,b   Gong, Jinlong ^a   Wang, Sen ^a,b   Zhu, Dezhang ^a   He, Suixia ^a   Zhu, Zhiyuan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Electron microscopy; Etching

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ETCHING; ETHANOL; METHANOL; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY;

C RADICALS; GAS REACTANT; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCNTS); OH RADICALS; WATER VAPOR;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33644910904     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2005.10.050     Document Type: Article

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