Imaging nitrogen in individual carbon nanotubes

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1709-1713

  Zhou, Jigang ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Liu, Hao ^b   Banis, Mohammad N ^b   Sun, Xueliang ^b   Sham, Tsun Kong ^b  

^a CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; CHEMICAL IMAGING; IMAGE STACKS; LOCAL ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES; LONG AXIS; NITROGEN-DOPED; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOTAL ELECTRON YIELD;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NITROGEN; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77953176008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz100376v     Document Type: Article

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