Effect of catalyst pattern geometry on the growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 696-704

  Jeong, Goo Hwan ^a,b   Olofsson, Niklas ^a   Falk, Lena K L ^c   Campbell, Eleanor E B ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; PHOTORESISTS;

CARBON FEEDSTOCK; CARBON NANOTUBE (CNT) ARRAYS; CATALYST PATTERN; EFFECT OF CATALYST; NANO TUBE; PATTERN DESIGNS; PATTERN SIZES; PILLAR ARRAYS; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT (VL);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 58549111012     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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