Tailoring multi-wall carbon nanotubes for smaller nanostructures

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 829-838

  Zhou, Jigang ^a   Cheiftz, Joshua ^a   Li, Ruying ^a   Wang, Fengping ^a   Zhou, Xingtai ^a   Sham, Tsun Kong ^a   Sun, Xueliang ^a   Ding, Zhifeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; CUTTING; ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ETHANOL; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BIO-SENSING; REDUCTION PROCESSING; SCAN RATES; SURFACE MODIFICATIONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY (XPS);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 58549088973     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2008.11.032     Document Type: Article

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