Complex carbon nanotube superstructures synthesized with natural mineral catalysts

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 873-879

  Xu, Zhiyong ^a   Wang, Howard ^a   Hwang, Jiann Yang ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; MINERALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NATURAL MINERALS; SUPERSTRUCTURES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33846541343     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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