Coal-derived carbon nanotubes by thermal plasma jet

Carbon

Volumn 42, Issue 12-13, 2004, Pages 2597-2601

  Tian, Yajun ^a,c   Zhang, Yueling ^b   Wang, Baojun ^a   Ji, Weijie ^c   Zhang, Yongfa ^a   Xie, Kechang ^a  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Carbon cluster, Carbon nanotubes, Coal; B. Catalyst, Plasma reactions

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CATALYSTS; COAL; INERT GASES; PLASMA JETS; PYROLYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; CARBON CLUSTERS; COAL-DERIVED CARBON NANOTUBES; PLASMA REACTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 4043101087     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2004.05.042     Document Type: Article

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