Cobalt Nanoparticle-Assisted Engineering of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2632-2638

  Wang, Ming Sheng ^a   Bando, Yoshio ^a   Rodriguez Manzo, Julio A ^b   Banhart, Florian ^b   Golberg, Dmitri ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

CNT metal interaction CNT interconnection tensile strength Co catalytic growth TEM STM TEM AFM

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; CNT-METAL INTERACTION CNT INTERCONNECTION TENSILE STRENGTH CO- CATALYTIC GROWTH TEM-STM TEM-AFM; CO PARTICLES; COBALT NANOPARTICLES; FOCUSED ELECTRON BEAMS; FORMER PROCESS; GRAPHITIC SHELLS; MECHANICAL ROBUSTNESS; METALLIC CONDUCTION; MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SOLDERING PROCESS; TEM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; COBALT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; METALS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 70349536111     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900634f     Document Type: Article

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