Formation of carbon fiber florets using copper tartrate catalyst precursors

Materials Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 2779-2782

  Zhang, Qian ^a   Du, Fanglin ^a   Dong, Lifeng ^a,b   Hao, Chuncheng ^a  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon materials; Chemical vapor deposition; Electron microscopy; Nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CHARACTERIZATION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COPPER; DEPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBERS; NANOPARTICLES; VAPOR DEPOSITION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; YARN;

CARBON MATERIAL; CATALYST PRECURSORS; CATALYTIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CATALYTIC GROWTH; COPPER CATALYST; COPPER TARTRATE; GROWTH MODELING; REACTION PARAMETERS;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 79959549405     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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