Size-selective growth of double-walled carbon nanotube forests from engineered iron catalysts

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 131-136

  Yamada, Takeo ^a   Namai, Tatsunori ^a   Hata, Kenji ^a   Futaba, Don N ^a   Mizuno, Kohei ^a   Fan, Jing ^b   Yudasaka, Masako ^b,c   Yumura, Motoo ^a   Iijima, Sumio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; IRON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; IRON; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 34547496795     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2006.95     Document Type: Article

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