Gas-phase reactions during CVD synthesis of carbon nanotubes: Insights via numerical experiments

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 6718-6726

  Kuwana, Kazunori ^a   Li, Tianxiang ^a   Saito, Kozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Computation; Kinetics; Modeling; Reaction engineering; Soot

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; REACTION KINETICS; SOOT;

NANOTUBE SYNTHESIS; REACTION ENGINEERING; XYLENE REACTION MODEL;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; REACTION KINETICS; SOOT;

EID: 33748037730     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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