84% Catalyst activity of water-assisted growth of single walled carbon nanotube forest characterization by a statistical and macroscopic approach

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 8035-8038

  Futaba, Don N ^a   Hata, Kenji ^a   Namai, Tatsunori ^a   Yamada, Takeo ^a   Mizuno, Kohei ^a   Hayamizu, Yuhei ^a   Yumura, Motoo ^a   Iijima, Sumio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER;

MACROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SINGLE-WALLED NANOTUBES; WATER-ASSISTED GROWTH;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33646434505     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp060080e     Document Type: Article

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