Thin single-walled carbon nanotubes with narrow chirality distribution: constructive interplay of plasma and Gibbs-Thomson effects

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 8372-8382

  Ostrikov, Kostya ^a,b   Mehdipour, Hamid ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

chirality control; graphene layer; plasma nanoscience; single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY DISTRIBUTION; DIRECT PLASMA; GIBBS-THOMSON; GRAPHENE LAYER; GRAPHENE LAYERS; MATERIALS SYSTEMS; METAL CATALYST; MULTISCALES; NANOSCALE STRUCTURE; NANOTUBE GROWTH; NUMERICAL MODELING; PLASMA-SURFACE INTERACTIONS; PROCESS TEMPERATURE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; THERMAL CVD;

CATALYSTS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS; GRAPHENE; GROWTH (MATERIALS); NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEATION; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; PLASMA SHEATHS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; THERMOELECTRICITY;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMA GAS; PRESSURE; STEREOISOMERISM; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PLASMA GASES; PRESSURE; STEREOISOMERISM; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80054977773     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2030989     Document Type: Article

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