Diffusion - and reaction - limited growth of carbon nanotube forests

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3560-3566

  Wirth, Christoph Tobias ^a   Zhang, Can ^a   Zhong, Guofang ^a   Hofmann, Stephan ^a   Robertson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Carbon nanotube; Chemical vapor deposition; Growth mechanism

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIFFUSION; CATALYST SURFACES; GROWTH MECHANISM; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; OPTICAL IMAGING; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; SMALL-DIAMETER; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

ACETYLENE; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; LIGHTING; OPTICAL SENSORS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

EID: 73249130782     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900613e     Document Type: Article

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