Sandwich growth of aligned carbon nanotubes array using thermal chemical vapor deposition method

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1341-1345

  Mohamed, Norani Muti ^a   Kou, Lai Mun ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Buffer layer; Carbon nanotubes; Catalyst; Chemical vapor deposition; Sandwich configuration

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953307502     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2011.1341.1345     Document Type: Article

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