Steam purification for the removal of graphitic shells coating catalytic particles and the shortening of single-walled carbon nanotubes

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Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1501-1506

  Ballesteros, Belén ^a   Tobias, Gerard ^a   Shao, Lidong ^a   Pellicer, Eva ^b   Nogués, Josep ^c   Mendoza, Ernest ^b   Green, Malcolm L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Catalysis; Purification; Shortening; Steam

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSIS; COATINGS; PURIFICATION; STEAM; YARN;

CATALYTIC METAL PARTICLES; CATALYTIC PARTICLES; GRAPHITIC SHELLS; SHORTENING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); TUBULAR STRUCTURES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WATER VAPOR;

CATALYSIS; GRAPHITE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STEAM;

EID: 52649084868     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.200701283     Document Type: Article

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