Direct growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on a planar carbon substrate by thermal chemical vapour deposition

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 500-506

  Liu, Xianming ^a   Baronian, Keith H R ^b   Downard, Alison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b CHRISTCHURCH POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ETHYLENE; GROWTH (MATERIALS); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; SUBSTRATES;

ALIGNED NANOTUBES; CARBON SOURCES; CARBON SUBSTRATES; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITIONS; DIRECT GROWTHS; GLASSY CARBONS; IRON CATALYSTS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; VOLTAMMETRIC;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 57949111536     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2008.10.033     Document Type: Article

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