Purification of single-walled carbon nanotubes using a fixed bed reactor packed with zirconia beads

Carbon

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-254

  Tan, Soon Huat ^a,b   Goak, Jeung Choon ^a   Hong, Sung Chul ^a   Lee, Naesung ^a  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; QUARTZ; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; ZIRCONIA;

AIR FLOW; CARBONACEOUS IMPURITIES; FIXED BED REACTORS; PHASE OXIDATIONS; QUARTZ TUBES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 39149097812     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.11.013     Document Type: Article

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