Very fast growth of millimeter-tall aligned carbon nanotubes between two stacked substrates coated with a metal catalyst

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1395-1400

  Huang, Jia Qi ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Zhao, Meng Qiang ^a   Zhou, Kai ^a   Wei, Fei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; ALIGNED CNTS; CATALYST COMPOSITION; CATALYST LAYERS; FACE TO FACE; GROWTH PARAMETERS; IN-SITU MONITORING; METAL CATALYST; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SIMPLE METHOD; SUBSTRATE MATERIAL;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 78751575328     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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