Direct synthesis of diamond from low purity carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3136-3138

  Zhang, Faming ^a,b   Shen, Jun ^a   Sun, Jianfei ^a   McCartney, D G ^c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Diamond; Phase transitions; Sintering

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748789096     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.06.033     Document Type: Letter

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