Tree-like carbon grown from camphor

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1545-1551

  Tang, Jing ^a,b   Jin, Guo Qiang ^a   Wang, Ying Yong ^a   Guo, Xiang Yun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COAL CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON FLOW RATE; BUILDING BLOCKES; CARBON MICROSPHERES; FERROCENES; REACTION TEMPERATURE; TREE BRANCHES;

ARGON; COALESCENCE; IRON COMPOUNDS;

MICROSPHERES;

EID: 75749090716     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.12.051     Document Type: Article

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