Radial followed by longitudinal unzipping of multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3865-3872

  Cho, Seungchan ^a   Kikuchi, Keiko ^a   Kawasaki, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROAD APPLICATION; CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES; CATALYTIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CHEMICAL METHOD; HYBRID STRUCTURE; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; RADIAL DIRECTION;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; GRAPHENE; NITRIC ACID; SULFURIC ACID;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 79959993822     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.05.023     Document Type: Article

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