Synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes by an arc-discharge method using selenium as a promoter

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 4792-4800

  Huang, Liping ^a,b   Wu, Bin ^a   Chen, Jianyi ^a,b   Xue, Yunzhou ^a,b   Liu, Yunqi ^a   Kajiura, Hisashi ^c   Li, Yongming ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR OXIDATION; ARC-DISCHARGE METHOD; DENSITY GRADIENT ULTRACENTRIFUGATION METHODS; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH PURITY; KEY FACTORS; PURIFICATION METHOD; WETTING EFFECT;

AIR CLEANERS; CENTRIFUGATION; OXIDATION; PURIFICATION; SELENIUM; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 80051799388     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.06.091     Document Type: Article

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