A study on the action of ozone on multiwall carbon nanotubes

Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-17

  Cataldo, Franco ^a  

^a Soc Lupi Chem Research Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elovich equation; FT IR; Infrared spectroscopy; Kinetics; Multiwall; Nanotubes; Oxidative functionalization; Ozonation; Ozone; TGA; Thermogravimetric analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OZONE; OZONIZATION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE MOLECULES; CARBON MATERIALS; ELOVICH EQUATION; OXIDATIVE FUNCTIONALIZATION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 38149031636     PISSN: 1536383X     EISSN: 15364046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15363830701779281     Document Type: Article

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