A facile and efficient gas phase process for purifying single-walled carbon nanotubes

Current Applied Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1231-1235

  Rong, Haiqin ^a,c   Liu, Zhenyu ^b   Wu, Qilin ^a,d   Lee, Young Hee ^c  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas phase nitric acid; Gas phase purification; Single walled carbon nanotubes; Wet air

Indexed keywords

BURN OUT; CARBONACEOUS PARTICLES; CATALYTIC METALS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAS PHASE NITRIC ACID; GAS PHASE PROCESS; GAS PHASE PURIFICATION; GASPHASE; LOW LOSS; METAL CONTENT; NITRIC ACID TREATMENT; PURIFICATION PROCESS; THERMAL GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WET AIR;

ACIDS; AIR CLEANERS; AMORPHOUS CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METAL REFINING; NITRIC ACID; PURIFICATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

GASES;

EID: 77951236532     PISSN: 15671739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cap.2010.02.049     Document Type: Article

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