Preferential growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes with metallic conductivity

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5949, 2009, Pages 116-120

  Harutyunyan, Avetik R ^a   Chen, Gugang ^a   Paronyan, Tereza M ^b   Pigos, Elena M ^a   Kuznetsov, Oleg A ^a   Hewaparakrama, Kapila ^b   Kim, Seung Min ^c   Zakharov, Dmitri ^c   Stach, Eric A ^c   Sumanasekera, Gamini U ^b  

^a Honda R&D Americas Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

CARBON; CATALYST; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NOBLE GAS; PYROLYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHIRALITY; CONDUCTANCE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONICS; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 70349664284     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1177599     Document Type: Article

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