Highly aligned carbon nanotube forests coated by superconducting NbC

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Zou, G F ^a,b   Luo, H M ^c   Baily, S ^b   Zhang, Y Y ^b   Haberkorn, N F ^b   Xiong, J ^b   Bauer, E ^b   McCleskey, T M ^b   Burrell, A K ^b   Civale, L ^b   Zhu, Y T ^d   MacManus Driscoll, J L ^e   Jia, Q X ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Horeshoe Cir Jett Hall   (United States)

^d North Carolina State University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; NIOBIUM; NIOBIUM CARBIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONDUCTANCE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIAL COATING; MORPHOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 80052403927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1438     Document Type: Article

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