Large scale production of carbon nanotube arrays on the sphere surface from liquefied petroleum gas at low cost

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 2896-2902

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Huang, Jiaqi ^a   Wei, Fei ^a   Xu, Guanghui ^a   Wang, Yao ^a   Qian, Weizhong ^a   Wang, Dezheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube arrays; Large scale; Liquefied petroleum gas; Production

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548971155     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-007-0458-8     Document Type: Article

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