Tunable assembly of carbon nanospheres on single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 30, 2010, Pages

  Qu, Liangti ^a   Zhang, Han ^a   Zhu, Jia ^b   Dai, Liming ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOSPHERE; CATALYST-FREE; CODEPOSITION; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; HETEROJUNCTION STRUCTURES; PLASMA POWER; POST-DEPOSITION; SPONTANEOUS ASSEMBLY; UNIFORM SIZE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSPHERES; PLASMA DEPOSITION; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 77954378355     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/30/305602     Document Type: Article

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