Thermal oxidative cutting of multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2341-2350

  Tran, Michael Q ^a   Tridech, Charnwit ^a   Alfrey, Alexander ^a,b   Bismarck, Alexander ^a   Shaffer, Milo S P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CUTTING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; OXIDATION; OXIDES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SOLVENTS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

FUNCTIONALIZATION; THERMAL OXIDATIVE CUTTING;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 34548702666     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.07.012     Document Type: Article

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