An experimental and theoretical examination of the effect of sulfur on the pyrolytically grown carbon nanotubes from sucrose-based solid state precursors

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 508-517

  Kucukayan, Gokce ^a   Ovali, Rasim ^a   Ilday, Serim ^a   Baykal, Beril ^a   Yurdakul, Hilmi ^b   Turan, Servet ^b   Gulseren, Oguz ^a   Bengu, Erman ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC MODELS; CATALYST PARTICLES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; IN-LINE; NANOTUBE FORMATION; NUCLEATION SITES; POPULATION DENSITIES; REACTION MEDIA; SIDE WALLS; Y-JUNCTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; PYROLYSIS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SULFUR; SULFURIC ACID;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 78650031126     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.09.050     Document Type: Article

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