A multi-step strategy for cutting and purification of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1972-1978

  Liu, Yangqiao ^a   Gao, Lian ^a   Sun, Jing ^a   Zheng, Shan ^a   Jiang, Linqin ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Kajiura, Hisashi ^b   Li, Yongming ^b   Noda, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^b SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PURIFICATION; SOOT;

AMMONIA HEAT TREATMENT; CATALYTIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DECOMPOSITION; METAL IMPURITIES; PRISTINE SOOT;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 34547817694     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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