Controlling the yield and structure of carbon nanofibers grown on a nickel/activated carbon catalyst

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3023-3033

  Rinaldi, Ali ^a,b   Abdullah, Norly ^a   Ali, Muataz ^a   Furche, Andreas ^b   Hamid, Sharifah Bee Abd ^a   Su, Dang Sheng ^b   Schlögl, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CATALYSTS; CARBON DISSOLUTION; CATALYZED GASIFICATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; NI CATALYSTS; REDUCING ATMOSPHERE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SUBSEQUENT REDUCTION;

CARBON NANOFIBERS; CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYST SUPPORTS; DISSOLUTION; MICROSCOPES; NICKEL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEXTURES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

EID: 68749091095     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.06.056     Document Type: Article

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