In situ assembly of multi-sheeted buckybooks from single-walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 707-713

  Liu, Qingfeng ^a   Ren, Wencai ^a   Wang, Da Wei ^a   Chen, Zhi Gang ^a   Pei, Songfeng ^a   Liu, Bilu ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Cong, Hongtao ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Cheng, Hui Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Assembly; Carbon nanotubes; Filtration; Floating catalyst; Macrostructure

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC GROWTHS; FLOATING CATALYST; HIGH EFFICIENCIES; IN-SITU; MACROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR SEPARATIONS; NANOTUBE DIAMETERS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURES; PACKING DENSITIES;

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; POROUS MATERIALS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 65249161098     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800852n     Document Type: Article

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