TEM studies of carbon nanofibres formed on Ni catalyst by polyethylene pyrolysis

Nanotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1862-1866

  Blank, V D ^a   Alshevskiy, Yu L ^a   Belousov, Yu A ^b   Kazennov, N V ^a   Perezhogin, I A ^a   Kulnitskiy, B A ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE FOR SUPERHARD AND NOVEL CARBON MATERIALS   (Russian Federation)

^b A N NESMEYANOV INSTITUTE OF ORGANOELEMENT COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYSTS; NICKEL; POLYETHYLENES; PYROLYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOFIBRES (CNF); POLYETHYLENE PYROLYSIS; SURFACE TENSION FORCES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33645281202     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/17/8/009     Document Type: Article

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