Direct route to high-density and uniform assembly of Au nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3139-3142

  Li, Xianglong ^a   Liu, Yunqi ^a   Fu, Lei ^a   Cao, Lingchao ^a   Wei, Dacheng ^a   Yu, Gui ^a   Zhu, Daoben ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Transmission electron microscopy; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748786286     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.06.020     Document Type: Letter

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