Growth of novel carbon phases by methane infiltration of free-standing single-walled carbon nanotube films

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1085-1096

  Böttcher, Artur ^a   Hennrich, Frank ^b   Rösner, Harald ^b   Malik, Sharali ^b   Kappes, Manfred M ^a,b   Lichtenberg, Sven ^a   Schoch, Günter ^a   Deutschmann, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; IMPURITIES; INFILTRATION; METHANE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AUTOCATALYTIC DEPOSITION KINETICS; CARBON NUCLEI; CARBON PHASES; STRUCTURAL IMPERFECTIONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 34047157271     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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