An efficient strategy for the purification of cloth-like single walled carbon nanotube soot produced by arc discharge

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3769-3777

  Guo, Wei ^a   Dou, Zengpei ^a   Li, He ^a   Shi, Zujin ^a   Sun, Hongfang ^a   Liu, Yuanfang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC DISCHARGE; CARBONACEOUS IMPURITIES; EFFICIENT STRATEGY; FREEZE-DRYING PROCESS; HIGH PURITY; KEY PROCESS; LARGE SURFACE AREA; LIQUID OXIDATION; REFLUXING; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEAM OXIDATION; STEAM TREATMENT; VIS-NIR SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES; LOW TEMPERATURE DRYING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; PURIFICATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOOT; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 77955420366     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.06.039     Document Type: Article

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