Single-walled carbon nanotube growth with non-iron-group "catalysts" by chemical vapor deposition

Nano Research

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 793-799

  Homma, Yoshikazu ^a   Liu, Huaping ^a,c   Takagi, Daisuke ^b   Kobayashi, Yoshihiro ^b,d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Bio Medical Informatics Research Center   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Catalyst; Chemical vapor deposition; Growth mechanism; Seed; Vapor liquid solid mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350615998     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-009-9082-z     Document Type: Article

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