Nondestructive purification of single-walled carbon nanotube rope through a battery-induced ignition and chemical solution approach

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2159-2168

  Tseng, Shih Hao ^a   Palathinkal, Thomas Joseph ^a   Tai, Nyan Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SHELLS; CARBONACEOUS SHELL; CATALYST PARTICLES; CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS; END STRUCTURE; FTIR; IN-VACUUM; NON DESTRUCTIVE; OXALIC ACID; OXIDIZATION; SEM; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; TEM; TWO STEP METHOD; UV-VIS-NIR; XPS;

ADSORPTION; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; PURIFICATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ROPE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 77950517979     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.01.034     Document Type: Article

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