Super-long aligned TiO2/carbon nanotube arrays

Nanotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 50, 2010, Pages

  Zhao, Yang ^a   Hu, Yue ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Zhang, Han ^a   Zhang, Shaowen ^a   Qu, Liangti ^a   Shi, Gaoquan ^b   Dai, Liming ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATASE TIO; CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; COAXIAL NANOWIRES; DEVICE APPLICATION; EXTERNAL CIRCUITS; FAST ELECTRON TRANSFER; MACROSTRUCTURES; NANO-MATERIALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC SYSTEMS; PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRONS; SCANNING ELECTRONS; TIO; UNIFORM LAYER;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COATINGS; NANOWIRES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 78650120279     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/50/505702     Document Type: Article

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