Carbon nanofibers "spot-welded" to carbon paper by carbothermal reduction: A nano/micron-scale hierarchical architecture having low contact resistance

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 6001-6006

  Li, Jiang ^a   Steigerwalt, Eve S ^b   Sambandam, Senthil ^c   Lu, Weijie ^c   Lukehart, Charles M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dana Corporation   (United States)

^c FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL ARCHITECTURE; SURFACE AREA ANALYSIS;

CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION; CONTACT RESISTANCE; GRAPHITE FIBERS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CARBON NANOFIBERS;

EID: 36949006952     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm701996n     Document Type: Article

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