Enhanced ethanol production inside carbon-nanotube reactors containing catalytic particles

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 507-511

  Pan, Xiulian ^a   Fan, Zhongli ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Ding, Yunjie ^a   Luo, Hongyuan ^a   Bao, Xinhe ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL REACTORS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS;

CATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; ELECTRON CONDUCTIVITY; HOST-GUEST INTERACTION;

ETHANOL;

EID: 34547447121     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1916     Document Type: Article

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