Crystallographically aligned carbon nanotubes grown on few-layer graphene films

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 6403-6409

  Hunley, D Patrick ^a   Johnson, Stephen L ^a   Stieha, Joseph K ^a   Sundararajan, Abhishek ^a   Meacham, Aaron T ^a   Ivanov, Ilia N ^b   Strachan, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

aligned carbon nanotubes; catalysis; chemical vapor deposition; crystallographic etching; graphene

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; ATOMIC LAYER; CATALYST PARTICLES; CHEMICAL VAPOR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ETCHING; IDENTICAL PROCESS; LATERAL RESOLUTION;

ALIGNMENT; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 80052051945     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201573m     Document Type: Article

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