Structural and morphological control of aligned nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1498-1507

  Liu, Hao ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Li, Ruying ^a   Sun, Xueliang ^a   Désilets, Sylvain ^b   Abou Rachid, Hakima ^b   Jaidann, Mounir ^b   Lussier, Louis Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION METHODS; CORRUGATED STRUCTURES; FLOATING CATALYST; FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS; INNER STRUCTURE; INTENSITY RATIO; MORPHOLOGICAL CONTROL; MORPHOLOGY TRANSITIONS; NANO-DEVICES; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; NITROGEN CONTENT; NITROGEN-DOPED; NITROGEN-DOPING; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RAMAN ANALYSIS; SMOOTH WALL; XPS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FUEL CELLS; MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE RESINS; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 75749108613     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.12.045     Document Type: Article

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