In situ observations of catalyst dynamics during surface-bound carbon nanotube nucleation

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 602-608

  Hofmann, Stephan ^a   Sharma, Renu ^b   Ducati, Caterina ^a   Du, Gaohui ^b   Mattevi, Cecilia ^d,e   Cepek, Cinzia ^e   Cantoro, Mirco ^a   Pisana, Simone ^a   Parvez, Atlus ^a   Cervantes Sodi, Felipe ^a   Ferrari, Andrea C ^a   Dunin Borkowski, Rafal ^a,c   Lizzit, Silvano ^f   Petaccia, Luca ^f   Goldoni, Andrea ^f   Robertson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^f SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAP STABILIZATION; CATALYST NANOCRYSTALS; CATALYST NANOPARTICLES; CRYSTALLINE LATTICE FRINGE CONTRASTS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; FORMABILITY; NANOFIBERS; NUCLEATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 34047121249     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0624824     Document Type: Article

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