Coil-in-coil carbon nanocoils: 11 gram-scale synthesis, single nanocoil electrical properties, and electrical contact improvement

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 781-788

  Tang, Nujiang ^a   Kuo, Waston ^b   Jeng, Chienchung ^b   Wang, Liyuan ^b   Lin, Kuanjiuh ^b   Du, Youwei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanocoils; Catalytic growth; Coiled structures; Electrical contact improvement; Electrical property

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE DECOMPOSITION; CARBON NANOCOILS; CATALYTIC GROWTH; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CHARGE CONDUCTION; DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURE; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTRON HOPPING; FOCUSED LASER; FOCUSED LASER BEAMS; GRAM-SCALE SYNTHESIS; NANO DEVICE; NANO-DEVICES; NANOCOILS; NANOSPRINGS; NICKEL NANOPARTICLES; SELF-ASSEMBLED; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; VARIABLE-RANGE HOPPING; VRH MODEL;

ACETYLENE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 77649126302     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901417z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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