Growth of carbon nanotubes from heterometallic palladium and copper catalysts

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 114, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 8115-8119

  O'Byrne, Justin P ^a,b   Li, Zhonglai ^a,b   Tobin, Joseph M ^a   Larsson, J Andreas ^a   Larsson, Peter ^c   Ahuja, Rajeev ^c   Holmes, Justin D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMETALLIC PARTICLES; CARBON NANOFIBRES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DECOMPOSITION; COPPER CATALYST; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY SIMULATIONS; DOPANT METALS; HETEROMETALLICS; PD CATALYST; SUPPORTED PD;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; BINDING ENERGY; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CATALYSTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METHANE; PALLADIUM; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77952018445     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp909309t     Document Type: Article

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