Structure and gas permeability of multi-wall carbon nanotube buckypapers

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1176-1184

  Smajda, Rita ^a   Kukovecz, Ákos ^a   Kónya, Zoltán ^a   Kiricsi, Imre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; GAS PERMEABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

IMAGE FRACTAL DIMENSION; LACUNARITY; MACROPORE DIAMETERS; TRANSLATIONAL INVARIANCE;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 34247352396     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.02.022     Document Type: Article

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