Catalytic production of carbon nanotubes in a swirled fluid chemical vapour deposition reactor

International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Iyuke, Sunny Esayegbemu ^a   Abdulkareem, Saka Ambali ^a   Afolabi, Samuel Ayo ^a   Piennar, Christo H vZ ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Chemical vapour deposition; Image analysis; Reaction kinetics

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GRAPHITIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CATALYTIC GRAPHITISATION; CATALYTIC PRODUCTION; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION REACTORS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 34948822855     PISSN: 21945748     EISSN: 15426580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-6580.1422     Document Type: Article

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