Large scale combustion synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes and their characterization

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 6065-6074

  Richter, Henning ^a   Treska, Meri ^b   Howard, Jack B ^a   Wen, John Z ^b   Thomasson, Sebastien B ^b   Reading, Arthur A ^b   Jardim, Paula M ^b,c   Vander Sande, John B ^b  

^a Nano C Inc   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AFM; SEM; TEM; TGA; XRD

Indexed keywords

AFM; SEM; TEM; TGA; XRD;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; COMBUSTION; COMBUSTION SYNTHESIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; FULLERENES; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; METAL RECOVERY; METAL REFINING; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SMOKE; THERMOCHEMISTRY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GAS; HEAT; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GASES; HOT TEMPERATURE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 58149214361     PISSN: 15334880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2008.SW07     Document Type: Article

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