Morphologies and microstructures of tree-like carbon produced at different reaction conditions in a CVD process

Carbon

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2254-2260

  Ma, Hai Long ^a,c   Su, Dang Sheng ^b   Klein Hoffmann, Achim ^b   Jin, Guo Qiang ^a   Guo, Xiang Yun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COAL CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Chemical vapor deposition; Microstructure; Scanning electron microscopy; Vapor grown carbon

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MICROSTRUCTURE; REACTION KINETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TOLUENE;

CARBON TREES; FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; REACTION TEMPERATURES; VAPOR-GROWN CARBON;

CARBON;

EID: 33745278573     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.02.033     Document Type: Article

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