Growth velocity and direct length- sorted growth of short single-walled carbon nanotubes by a metal-catalyst- free chemical vapor deposition process

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3421-3430

  Liu, Bilu ^a   Ren, Wencai ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Sun, Cheng Hua ^b   Gao, Libo ^a   Li, Shisheng ^a   Jiang, Chuanbin ^a   Cheng, Hui Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Catalyst activity; Growth velocity; Length; Metal catalyst free; Patterned growth

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY; AVERAGE LENGTH; CATALYST-FREE; CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESS; CO CATALYSTS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; FINITE LENGTH; GROWTH VELOCITY; IRON GROUP; PATTERNED GROWTH; SHARP CONTRAST; SLOW GROWTH;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; METALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); VELOCITY;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

CARBON NANOTUBE; COBALT; METAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; KINETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLATILIZATION;

CATALYSIS; COBALT; KINETICS; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SILICON DIOXIDE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 73249134545     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900799v     Document Type: Article

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