Moderating carbon supply and suppressing Ostwald ripening of catalyst particles to produce 4.5-mm-tall single-walled carbon nanotube forests

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4497-4504

  Hasegawa, Kei ^a   Noda, Suguru ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SUPPLY; CATALYST PARTICLES; COARSENING RATES; COMBINATORIAL CATALYST; LOWER LIMITS; REAL TIME MONITORING; UPPER LIMITS;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; OSTWALD RIPENING;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 79961030639     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.06.061     Document Type: Article

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