Synthesis of carbon nanospheres from vanadium β-diketon catalyst

International Journal of Electrochemical Science

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 749-760

  Ndwandwe, Silindile ^a   Tshibangu, Patrick ^a   Dikio, Ezekiel Dixon ^a  

^a VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bis(acaetylacetonato)oxovanadium(IV); Carbon nanospheres; Organometallic catalyst; Raman; SEM; TEM; TGA; XRD

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952999488     PISSN: 14523981     EISSN: 14523981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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