Tuning carbon nanotubes through poor metal addition to iron catalysts in CVD

Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-44

  Bachmatiuk, Alicja ^a   Schäffel, Franziska ^a   Plachá, Daniela ^b   Martynková, Gražyna Simha ^b   Ioannides, Nicolas ^c   Gemming, Thomas ^a   Pichler, Thomas ^d   Kalenczuk, Ryszard J ^e   Borowiak Palen, Ewa ^e   Rümmeli, Mark H ^a  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^c LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

CNT; CVD; Raman spectroscopy; TEM

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC CVD; CVD; DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; HIGHER ORDER; IRON CATALYST; METAL ADDITION; TEM;

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; GALLIUM; LEAD; METALS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); ZINC;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77951227632     PISSN: 1536383X     EISSN: 15364046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15363830903293768     Document Type: Article

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