Syntheses of carbon nanomaterials by ferrocene

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 3653-3666

  Huang, Guoming ^a   Weng, Jian ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon composite; Carbon nanomaterials; Carbon nanostructure; Carbon nanotube; Catalyst; CVD method; Ferrocene; Fullerene; Functionalization; Graphene; Mesoporous carbon; Nanosphere; Organometallic compound; Solvothermal synthesis; Substrate; Supercritical fluidphase method

Indexed keywords

CARBON COMPOSITES; CARBON NANO-MATERIALS; CARBON NANO-STRUCTURES; CVD METHOD; FERROCENES; FLUID-PHASE; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; GRAPHENES; MESOPOROUS CARBON; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; SOLVOTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; SUPERCRITICAL; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDPHASE METHOD; ]+ CATALYST;

NANOCLAY;

EID: 80055097457     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138527211797884593     Document Type: Review

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