Control on the diameter of single-walled carbon nanotubes by changing the pressure in floating catalyst CVD

Carbon

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1853-1859

  Hiraoka, Tatsuki ^a   Bandow, Shunji ^a   Shinohara, Hisanori ^b   Iijima, Sumio ^a  

^a MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Chemical vapor deposition; Particle size; Raman spectroscopy; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646554835     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.03.024     Document Type: Letter

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