Controllable electrode activities of nano-carbon films while maintaining surface flatness by electrochemical pretreatment

Carbon

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1918-1926

  Sekioka, Naoyuki ^a,b   Kato, Dai ^b   Ueda, Akio ^b,c   Kamata, Tomoyuki ^d   Kurita, Ryoji ^b   Umemura, Shigeru ^d   Hirono, Shigeru ^e   Niwa, Osamu ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e MES Afty Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ELECTROCHEMICAL PRETREATMENT; NANO CARBONS; SURFACE FLATNESS;

CARBON FILMS;

EID: 53549121159     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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