Assessment of catalyst particle removal in multi-wall carbon nanotubes by highly sensitive magnetic measurements

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 758-763

  Pellicer, Eva ^a   González Guerrero, Ana Belén ^a   Nogués, Josep ^a   Lechuga, Laura M ^a   Mendoza, Ernest ^a  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COBALT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MAGNETISM; MONITORING; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; NITRIC ACID; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSITION METALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CATALYST CONTENT; CATALYST NANOPARTICLES; CATALYST PARTICLES; DETECTION LIMIT (DL); FIRST ORDERS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA SPECTROSCOPY (ICPS); NONDESTRUCTIVE (NDT) METHODS; SAMPLE PROCESSING; STANDARD METHODS; X RAY DIFFRACTION (XRD); X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 58549111979     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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