Controlled growth of carbon, boron nitride, and zinc oxide nanotubes

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 922-929

  Moscatello, Jason P ^a   Wang, Jiesheng ^a   Ulmen, Benjamin ^a   Mensah, Samuel L ^a   Xie, Ming ^a   Wu, Shun ^a   Pandey, Archana ^a   Lee, Chee Huei ^a   Prasad, Abhishek ^a   Kayastha, Vijaya K ^a   Yap, Yoke Khin ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical transducers; Chemical transducers; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ATOMS; BORON; BORON NITRIDE; CARBON; CARBON NITRIDE; CATALYSIS; CUBIC BORON NITRIDE; FULLERENES; HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; NITRIDES; NONMETALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; PHOTODISSOCIATION; PIGMENTS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SURFACES; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES; VAPOR DEPOSITION; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES (BNNT); CARBON NANOTUBES (CNTS); CHEMICAL; CHEMICAL MOLECULES; CONTROLLABLE GROWTH; CONTROLLED GROWTH; CURRENT APPLICATIONS; DISSOCIATIVE ADSORPTION (DA); HYDROCARBON MOLECULES; IN ORDER; LOW TEMPERATURE GROWTH; OXIDE NANOTUBES; SENSING APPLICATIONS; TUBULAR STRUCTURES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; ZNO NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 44649105073     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.923906     Document Type: Article

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